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Yuyang Xie (谢语洋)

3×3 · top 0.11% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2024 · 2024XIEY04

Yuyang Xie (谢语洋) has been competing for 2 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 4.94, set at Hangzhou Open 2026, puts her in the top 0.11% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 53rd in China. Until November 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since September 2024, she has put 188 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 8.30 in September 2024 to 4.94, a 40% improvement. Yuyang has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.11% of 284,439 all-time
4.94
signature single · Hangzhou Open 2026
188
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×34.946.15
top 0.11%53 / 28,153
2×22.153.03
top 5.8%813 / 15,796
Pyraminx4.997.64
top 13.1%1,555 / 10,224

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

Dalian Open 2024: 8.30Hangzhou Open 2024: 7.75Luoyang Spring 2025: 7.15Linhai Newcomers 2025: 5.73Lishui Open 2025: 7.20Taizhou Open 2025: 5.38Ningbo Autumn 2025: 5.61Hangzhou Open 2026: 4.94Quanzhou Summer 2026: 6.06Guangzhou GraDUAL 3x3 II 2026: 5.69Beihai Open 2026: 5.17Nanning Open 2026: 6.104.948.3016 Sep 202423 Aug 2026

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

  • 16 Sep 2024First competition: Dalian Open 2024. A 8.88 3×3 single to start from.

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-4 3×3 single — 38 people have one; it is 0.94 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.15 away.

Targets move as she improves.