Sunday 6 September 2026 Rebuilt nightly from the WCA's official results · export of 6 September 2026 · About
The Middle Three
People → China → Yixiang Gao (高翊翔)

People · China

Yixiang Gao (高翊翔)

3×3 one-handed · top 0.39% of 73,695 all-time · competing since July 2019 · 2019GAOY05

Yixiang Gao (高翊翔) has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 8.69, set at Xuzhou Open 2025, puts him in the top 0.39% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 32nd in China. Until May 2015, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since July 2019, he has put 617 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 79% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 8.64 in July 2019 to 5.83, a 33% improvement. Yixiang has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.39% of 73,695 all-time
8.69
signature single · Xuzhou Open 2025
617
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 79% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×3 one-handed8.6912.09
top 0.39%32 / 5,922
3×35.837.49
top 0.39%153 / 28,153
4×425.5331.21
top 0.84%76 / 5,926
2×21.452.43
top 1.9%221 / 15,796
Megaminx43.6049.52
top 2.6%54 / 1,678
Pyraminx2.904.52
top 3.3%385 / 10,224
5×51:00.311:02.61
top 5.7%267 / 2,816
Skewb3.474.63
top 7.5%428 / 5,004
3×3 Fewest Moves28 moves35.67
top 9.9%98 / 1,058
6×62:17.182:21.08
top 19.0%422 / 1,349
7×73:56.314:11.82
top 29.3%576 / 1,261
Clock11.5812.36
top 33.0%783 / 1,843
Square-134.64
early days — 2 solves980 / 1,362

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

Heze Open 2019: 8.64Shandong Open 2019: 7.52Hefei Winter Open 2023: 6.93Huzhou Open 2024: 6.80Kunshan Open 2024: 7.13Chengdu Summer 2024: 7.50Lishui Open 2025: 6.23Yancheng Open 2025: 5.83Hefei Open 2025: 7.15Xuzhou Open 2025: 6.87Hangzhou Winter 2025: 6.69Xianju Special 2026: 6.525.838.6421 Jul 20198 Mar 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-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 0.69 away.
  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.83 away.

Targets move as he improves.