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Yongqiang Peng (彭永强)

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 0.041% of 12,294 all-time · competing since April 2013 · 2013PENG02

Yongqiang Peng (彭永强) has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 17 moves, set at More Than One Cube Shanghai 2026, puts him in the top 0.041% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in China. Across 57 competitions since April 2013, he has put 277 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 80% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.36 in April 2013 to 13.30, a 13% improvement. Yongqiang has entered 57 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 0.041% of 12,294 all-time
17 moves
signature single · More Than One Cube Shanghai 2026
277
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 80% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×3 Fewest Moves17 moves23.00
top 0.041%1 / 1,058
3×3 blindfolded30.801:15.16
top 4.4%74 / 1,183
3×313.3017.15
top 18.5%7,209 / 28,153
4×4 blindfolded6:20.58—
early days — 2 solves61 / 149
2×24.966.64
top 38.8%6,700 / 15,796
3×3 one-handed35.5640.45
top 58.3%4,788 / 5,922
3×3 Multi-Blind3 of 4 cubes · 26:34—
top 75.8%207 / 278

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

Zhengzhou Spring Open 2013: 15.36Luoyang Open 2013: 17.59Zhengzhou Open 2014: 13.30Zhengzhou Open 2015: 17.75Hefei Open 2015: 15.79Xi'an Open 2015: 18.17Cube of Odd Numbers 2016: 15.89Hefei Open 2016: 17.83Wuhan Open 2016: 15.54XJTU Open 2016: 14.93Xuchang Open 2017: 17.42Xi'an New Year 2018: 16.76Luoyang Spring 2018: 13.85Zhengzhou Open 2018: 21.37Shenzhen 3x3 Days 2019: 17.08Jieyang Open 2019: 15.48Shenzhen Cubing 10th Anniversary 2019: 17.65Xiamen Autumn 2019: 15.90Guilin Open 2021: 19.4513.3021.3730 Apr 201316 May 2021

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-30 3×3 blindfolded single — 501 people have one; it is 0.80 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.30 away.

Targets move as he improves.