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William Gan Wei Ren (颜伟仁)

3×3 · top 1.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2014 · 2014RENW01

William Gan Wei Ren (颜伟仁) has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.86, set at Glasgow Winter 2023, puts him in the top 1.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 47th in Malaysia. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 75 competitions since July 2014, he has put 4,135 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.81 in July 2014 to 6.86, a 67% improvement. William has entered 75 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.2% of 284,439 all-time
6.86
signature single · Glasgow Winter 2023
4,135
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingMalaysia
3×36.8610.03
top 1.2%47 / 3,773
Pyraminx2.484.88
top 2.1%34 / 1,723
2×21.633.31
top 2.7%63 / 2,541
3×3 one-handed12.0915.10
top 3.1%40 / 1,327
Skewb2.725.01
top 3.7%43 / 1,053
4×431.6735.71
top 3.9%57 / 1,219
3×3 Fewest Moves24 moves28.67
top 4.0%7 / 112
5×559.931:10.58
top 5.5%47 / 617
Megaminx52.7959.70
top 6.4%47 / 518
Square-110.2116.92
top 6.4%23 / 364
3×3 blindfolded50.801:20.36
top 10.1%16 / 169
7×73:03.093:23.23
top 11.5%34 / 188
6×62:04.122:07.84
top 12.8%45 / 232
Clock8.649.84
top 18.2%80 / 406
3×3 Multi-Blind10 of 11 cubes · 51:23—
top 19.7%11 / 48
4×4 blindfolded5:43.5610:20.00
top 26.9%10 / 31
5×5 blindfolded20:26.00—
early days — 2 solves9 / 14

Percentile against all competitors ever ranked in each event, a fairer measure than raw rank, because the pools differ by a factor of ten.

The line so far

Melaka Open 2014: 20.81Singapore Rubik's Cube Competition 2015: 15.56Malaysian Cube Open 2015: 13.77Singapore Rubik's Cube Competition 2016: 13.69IsYou Cube Open 2016: 14.81Johor Open 2016: 11.62INTI IU Open 2016: 12.00Forest City Open 2017: 10.54Putra Speedcubing Challenge 2017: 13.03USM Penang Cube 2017: 11.00Foon Yew Open 2017: 9.09Borneo Championship 2017: 10.28MYCA Cube Day 2017: 11.63Malaysia Cube Open 2017: 10.75Batam Rainy Speedcubing 2017: 9.48Malaysian Cube Championship 2017: 11.61Johor Cube Open 2018: 9.19Singapore Cube Championship 2018: 12.19Jakarta Mini Open 2018: 10.24Medan April Fools Open 2018: 10.42Perth Autumn 2018: 9.50Tangkak Perkasa 2018: 9.58Medan All Events 2018: 10.24Forest City Johor Open 2018: 9.05WCA Asian Championship 2018: 10.94UK Championship 2018: 9.72Weston-super-Mare Open 2018: 10.07Cambridge Open 2018: 9.52Manchester Open 2019: 10.74Chester Open 2019: 9.99Malaysia 10th Anniversary Cube Open 2019: 10.77Medan Farewell 2019: 11.07NTU Open 2019: 9.44Warm Up Canberra 2019: 9.82WCA World Championship 2019: 10.29Paris Open 2019: 9.55UK Championship 2019: 11.06Weston-super-Mare Open 2019: 11.32Berlin Winter Cubing 2020: 9.04Doncaster Open 2020: 11.04Don't DNF Dublin 2020: 10.61Manchester Open 2020: 9.66Singapore Mofun & FIS Cubing 2022: 8.56Petaling Jaya Cubing Comeback 2022: 10.06Toba Cubetastrophe 2022: 11.65Medan Revival 2022: 8.21Johor Cube Open 2022: 9.69YJ Malaysia Cube Open 2022: 10.41Stevenage Autumn A 2022: 9.85Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 9.18Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2022: 8.95Glasgow Winter 2023: 6.86Edinburgh Spring 2023: 8.63Stevenage May 2023: 8.10Glasgow Spring 2023: 8.30Edinburgh Summer 2023: 9.27Bolton Summer 2023: 8.58Wakefield Autumn 2023: 8.13Liverpool Winter 2023: 8.87Edinburgh Winter 2024: 8.91Newcastle Tyneside Spring 2024: 9.17Edinburgh Summer Open 2024: 10.45Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 12.07Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2024: 9.17Kewbz Scottish Championship 2025: 9.396.8620.8119 Jul 201430 May 2025

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

Competitions

Reading this page: a single is one solve's time · an average is the middle three of five solves, best and worst discarded · a PB is a personal best · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · top X% compares against everyone ever ranked in that event, which is fairer than raw rank because event pools differ tenfold.

The circuit

The people whose scorecards keep turning up next to his.

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.86 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.48 away.

Targets move as he improves.