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Zixuan Yang (杨子轩)

3×3 · top 0.22% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2017 · 2017YANG55

Zixuan Yang (杨子轩) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.43, set at Guilin Open 2021, puts him in the top 0.22% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 94th in China. Until April 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 32 competitions since May 2017, he has put 478 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.05 in May 2017 to 5.43, a 51% improvement. Zixuan has entered 32 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.22% of 284,439 all-time
5.43
signature single · Guilin Open 2021
478
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×35.436.94
top 0.22%94 / 28,153
3×3 Fewest Moves57 moves—
early days — 1 solve1,028 / 1,058

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

Fuzhou Open 2017: 11.05China Championship 2017: 10.75Hong Kong Open 2017: 11.25China's 10th Anniversary Championship 2017: 9.73WHU Rubik's Cube Days 2017: 8.59Yangjiang Open 2018: 9.35Dongguan Open 2018: 8.92GDSY Open 2018: 7.12Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2018: 7.97Guangdong Open 2018: 7.88Zhanjiang Open 2018: 7.84Zhongshan NxN Speedcubing 2018: 6.84Dongguan Mid-Autumn Festival 2018: 7.37China Championship 2018: 7.95Shenzhen Nanshan 2018: 7.68Wenzhou Open 2018: 7.16Dongguan Open 2019: 7.89Shenzhen 3x3 Days 2019: 7.60GDSY Open 2019: 7.22Dongguan Spring 2019: 8.14Zhongshan Children's Cube Day 2019: 7.29Guilin Open 2019: 6.68Meizhou Open 2019: 6.82China Championship 2019: 7.31Shenzhen Cubing 10th Anniversary 2019: 6.91Shenzhen Open 2019: 6.77Jieyang Winter 2020: 6.72Guangzhou Good Afternoon 2020: 6.49Jieyang Good Morning 2021: 6.89Guangzhou Panyu Morning 2021: 7.09Shenzhen Nanshan Morning 2021: 5.65Guilin Open 2021: 5.435.4311.2528 May 201716 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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.43 away.

Targets move as he improves.