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Yuyang Zhen (甄禹扬)

2×2 · top 1.2% of 186,767 all-time · competing since October 2013 · 2013ZHEN11

Yuyang Zhen (甄禹扬) has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.26, set at Changsha Xiangmo 2017, puts him in the top 1.2% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 141st in China. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 125 competitions since October 2013, he has put 2,977 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 78% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.63 in October 2013 to 7.75, a 56% improvement. Yuyang has entered 125 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 1.2% of 186,767 all-time
1.26
signature single · Changsha Xiangmo 2017
2,977
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 78% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
2×21.261.80
top 1.2%141 / 15,796
3×37.7510.36
top 2.4%858 / 28,153
4×433.7940.53
top 5.6%563 / 5,926
Square-113.6719.30
top 13.4%199 / 1,362
3×3 blindfolded1:15.002:00.68
top 17.8%253 / 1,183

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

Guangdong Open 2013: 17.63Guangzhou Small Cubes 2014: 14.55Huizhou Open 2014: 16.29Shantou Open 2014: 14.81Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2014: 14.76Guangdong Open 2014: 14.58Back To Cubing Hong Kong 2015: 13.01Cube of Prime Numbers 2015: 11.96Guangzhou SYSU Open 2015: 12.71Shenzhen Open 2015: 12.05Huizhou Open 2015: 12.89Shantou Open 2015: 12.80China Championship 2015: 11.00Shenzhen New Year 2016: 11.27Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2016: 12.25Arnold Classic Asia 2016: 11.92Asian Championship 2016: 12.02Quanzhou Open 2016: 12.69Shenzhen New Year 2017: 11.73Dongguan Open 2017: 12.53Hong Kong Cube Day 2017: 11.28GDSY Open 2017: 11.69Zhangzhou Spring 2017: 13.21Nanchang Spring 2017: 11.99Changsha Xiangmo 2017: 10.40Xiamen Open 2017: 10.06Zhuhai Open 2017: 11.59Chaozhou Open 2017: 10.81Longyan Summer Open 2017: 10.34China Championship 2017: 11.16Bulldog Cubing 2017: 12.04St. Boois 2017: 10.50Berkeley Fall 2017: 11.27Michigan Cubing Club Beta 2018: 10.66Gateway Ravioli Spring 2018: 11.63UIUC Spring 2018: 11.09HUST Open 2018: 11.74Omiya Bigs 2018: 12.28Nanchang Dragon-boat Open 2018: 10.32Huizhou Open 2018: 11.15Zhangzhou Open 2018: 12.03Shenzhen Open 2018: 11.29WCA Asian Championship 2018: 10.71Indianapolis Fall 2018: 10.11Indianapolis Cubes 2019: 10.87Cubing Peoria 2019: 8.95Meizhou Open 2019: 10.40Dongguan Summer 2019: 11.27Jieyang Open 2019: 9.21Michigan Cubing Club Gamma 2019: 9.94UIUC Fall 2019: 10.55Cubing Peoria 2020: 11.71Westview Winter B 2021: 11.20Anaheim Winter A 2022: 9.60Geffen Spring 2022: 10.18Circle City Summer 2022: 9.71Marshall Middle Slice 2022: 10.03Diamond Bar September 2022: 10.43WCC Western Championship 2022: 9.38Circle City Supercharged 2022: 10.05San Diego's Final Cube-Down 2022: 11.27Jaguar Open 2023: 10.94Cozy Cubing Poway 2023: 9.76Oak Valley Winter A 2023: 11.43Marshall Cubing Spring 2023: 10.68Baja Spring 2023: 10.96Bobcat Battle 2023: 10.20UCSD Spring 2023: 10.62Give Back RPV 2023: 10.21Westview Cubing Favorites 2023: 11.39UCSD For Hemophilia 2023: 9.86Jaguar Open V2 2023: 9.79Pride in Long Beach 2023: 10.00Agoura Cubing Again 2023: 10.48UCSD Summer 2023: 10.54Santa Ana Summer B 2023: 9.63Corona Summer 2023: 7.82Irvine Fall 2023: 10.30Slow N Steady Fall 2023: 10.11River Hill Fall 2023: 10.04Virginia Championship 2023: 10.14Princeton Fall 2023: 9.87MoCo Cubing Winter 2024: 8.70NoVa Cube Winter 2024: 8.38Cubing in the Lion's Den 2024: 10.57NYU Winter 2024: 11.19Penn Cube Day Spring 2024: 10.99New-Cumberland County 2024: 9.47Tunal Bogotá 2024: 8.76Speedcubing Bogotá II 2024: 9.75Cubing at Carson 2024: 10.86TCG Space lll Santa Anita 2024: 10.95Bethesda Summer Showdown 2024: 9.40Bull City Summer NC 2024: 9.31Gaithersburg Back to School 2024: 10.56Penn Cube Day Fall 2024: 9.36Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2024: 10.81Nacionales El Salvador 2024: 9.52River Hill Fall 2024: 9.86Pittsburgh Winter 2025: 11.49Slow N Steady UMD Spring 2025: 8.70Virginia Always Open Spring 2025: 10.77Front Royal Spring 2025: 9.92NxN Tlaxcala 2025: 11.48Coacalcubo 2025: 9.80Westview Cubing Favorites 2025: 10.03TJHSST Spring 2025: 10.15Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 9.07More Cubing with the Cougars WV 2025: 9.33Fredericksburg Summer AM 2025: 9.15ODU Big Blue Open 2025: 10.40Puerto Rico Open 2025: 10.44River Hill Fall 2025: 10.38Fredericksburg Winter PM 2026: 11.39TJHSST Winter 2026: 10.14Penn Cube Day Spring 2026: 10.19Welcome to Washington D.C. 2026: 10.23Derwood Cubing Derby Spring 2026: 7.757.7517.631 Oct 20139 May 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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.26 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.75 away.

Targets move as he improves.