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Yi Yang (杨翊)

3×3 · top 0.41% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2023 · 2023YANG84

Yi Yang (杨翊) has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.87, set at Jiangmen Open 2025, puts him in the top 0.41% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 161st in China. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since November 2023, he has put 120 official solves on the record across one event. 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 15.84 in November 2023 to 5.87, a 63% improvement. Yi has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.41% of 284,439 all-time
5.87
signature single · Jiangmen Open 2025
120
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 standingChina
3×35.877.01
top 0.41%161 / 28,153

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

Shenzhen Youth Open 2023: 15.84Shenzhen Open 2023: 13.54Shenzhen Nanshan Open 2024: 8.95Dandong Yalu River Open 2024: 8.89Deqing Small Cubes Summer 2024: 7.37Shenzhen Open 2024: 7.66Hong Kong Cube Day 2025: 8.11Zhuhai Open 2025: 6.62Jiangmen Open 2025: 5.87Guangzhou Small Cubes 2025: 6.14Guangdong Open - Revival & Rival 2026: 6.805.8715.8426 Nov 20236 Feb 2026

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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.87 away.

Targets move as he improves.