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Zong-Xing Yang (楊宗興)

Skewb · top 1% of 74,164 all-time · competing since May 2018 · 2018YANG70

Zong-Xing Yang (楊宗興) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 1.84, set at Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2025, puts him in the top 1% of the 74,164 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 7th in Chinese Taipei. Until December 2014, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 37 competitions since May 2018, he has put 1,265 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 62% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.49 in May 2018 to 7.52, a 65% improvement. He has entered 37 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Skewb
best event — top 1% of 74,164 all-time
1.84
signature single · Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2025
1,265
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 62% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
Skewb1.843.11
top 1%7 / 700
3×37.529.33
top 2.0%119 / 4,369
4×431.0034.96
top 3.5%93 / 1,079
Pyraminx3.125.11
top 4.1%59 / 1,017
5×556.981:06.40
top 4.2%63 / 640
2×22.193.97
top 6.2%161 / 1,671
3×3 one-handed14.1221.08
top 6.4%80 / 805
Megaminx56.711:00.17
top 8.3%48 / 363
Square-113.0115.87
top 12.0%56 / 323
6×62:05.972:10.87
top 13.7%81 / 293
7×73:26.463:32.11
top 18.6%85 / 252
Clock10.7711.27
top 28.9%129 / 370
3×3 Fewest Moves42 moves47.00
top 55.7%119 / 205

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

CK Cubing Party 2018: 21.49Taipei Winter Open 2018: 12.64Taiwan Championship 2018: 15.39Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2019: 12.23Taiwan Championship 2019: 10.26Taiwan Championship 2020: 11.94Taiwan Open 2022: 10.58Taiwan Championship 2022: 11.09CK Cubing Party 2023: 10.10New Taipei Open 2023: 9.68Shin Kong Cube Open 2023: 9.88Taiwan Championship 2023: 9.31Taichung Open 2024: 9.37Honhui Cubing Carnival 2024: 8.54Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2024: 8.04Taipei Summer Open 2024: 8.33Hsinchu Summer Open 2024: 8.36BQHS Spring Open 2025: 7.99Zhongshan Open 2025: 8.67Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2025: 8.93Taipei Summer Open 2025: 10.33Shin Kong Cube Open - New Taipei 2025: 8.33Shin Kong Cube Open - Taichung 2025: 8.65Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2025: 8.64Taiwan Championship 2025: 8.78BQHS Spring Open 2026: 9.10Zhongshan Open 2026: 8.31Taipei Cube Open 2026: 8.77Shin Kong Cube Open - New Taipei 2026: 8.77Shin Kong Cube Open - Taichung 2026: 7.52Shin Kong Cube Open - Hualien 2026: 8.627.5221.4927 May 201820 Sep 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 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.84 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.52 away.

Targets move as he improves.