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Yang Tang (汤阳)

3×3 · top 6.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2014 · 2014TANG05

Yang Tang (汤阳) has been competing for 12 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.72, set at ZUST Open 2017, puts her in the top 6.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,597th in China. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since July 2014, she has put 197 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 86% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 11.34 in July 2014 to 9.72, a 14% improvement. Yang has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.7% of 284,439 all-time
9.72
signature single · ZUST Open 2017
197
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 86% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×39.7211.09
top 6.7%2,597 / 28,153
4×443.7847.93
top 16.8%1,815 / 5,926
3×3 one-handed19.1722.55
top 18.3%1,821 / 5,922

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

Beijing Summer Open 2014: 11.34Hangzhou Winter Open 2014: 9.74Nanjing Spring 2015: 10.72Nanchang Open 2015: 12.40China Championship 2015: 9.88Nanjing Autumn 2015: 10.91Wuhan University Open 2015: 10.13Tianjin Winter Open 2015: 10.93Shanghai Spring 2016: 10.71Nanjing Spring 2016: 11.79Hefei Open 2016: 10.37Xining Summer Open 2016: 10.53Asian Championship 2016: 10.40ZUST Open 2017: 9.72Berkeley Summer 2017: 10.39Hangzhou Spring 2018: 10.859.7212.406 Jul 201417 Mar 2018

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.72 away.
  • A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 3.78 away.

Targets move as she improves.