Yitang Zhang (张艺棠)

Yitang Zhang (张艺棠) has been competing for 5 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.12, set at Hong Kong Championship 2024, puts her in the top 0.14% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 59th in China. Until November 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since March 2021, she has put 224 official solves on the record across one event. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 85% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 14.54 in March 2021 to 5.12, a 65% improvement. Yitang has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.