[NR] Yiheng Wang 5.44 3×3 NR(WR6 avg, 3.95 WR5 single)(+Ruihang Xu 5.63 WR10 avg, 3.86 WR3 single)

[Jason Tzeng]

Just the first round.

No video yet.

 

[baseballjello67]

What on earth

 

[Jason Tzeng]

 

[Jason Tzeng]

What on earth

Oh thanks.(Just find out that there's a thread about this comp.)

 

[lucazdoescubingstuff]

what in the actual-

this is unbelievable, say your last goodbyes to your wr, yusheng.

jk

 

[Megaminx lover]

Not yet

 

[J41]

Honestly quite incredible!

 

[abunickabhi]

Incredible stuff from the young kiddo.

 

[efattah]

It's amazing he can turn so fast considering how enormous the cube is, in his hands.

 

[Isaiah Scott]

Ruihang and yiheng I think might take 2 of the worlds 2023 podium slots.

 

[Cubinginatree]

Yiheng Wang's solution: How is he so fast yet uses white 99.2% of the time!??

Yiheng Wang - 3.95sec Single (3x3) - Speed Cube Database

47 STM 11.9 TPS, Reconstruction by: Stewy

speedcubedb.com

 

[Tabe]

Hearing that Ruihang's 3.86 was a misscramble and that there may have been plenty of others, too.

 

[Cuber987]

Hearing that Ruihang's 3.86 was a misscramble and that there may have been plenty of others, too.

Will it still count?

 

[SkewbIsTheBestEvent]

Will it still count?

If it is misscramble according to regulations it is a DNF

 

[Cuber987]

If it is misscramble according to regulations it is a DNF

So far it's still on there

 

[ruffleduck]

Yiheng Wang's solution: How is he so fast yet uses white 99.2% of the time!??

Yiheng Wang - 3.95sec Single (3x3) - Speed Cube Database

47 STM 11.9 TPS, Reconstruction by: Stewy

speedcubedb.com

single cross color gang

 

[Hououin Kyouma]

Yiheng Wang's solution: How is he so fast yet uses white 99.2% of the time!??

Yiheng Wang - 3.95sec Single (3x3) - Speed Cube Database

47 STM 11.9 TPS, Reconstruction by: Stewy

speedcubedb.com

Chinese cubers are slowly proving color neutrality and even bi-color solving might not have been the holy grail we once thought. The concept didn't seem to become as popular there. The idea was largely popularized by the rise of Feliks but Feliks was and is also just an insane cuber in general; for all the talk about him slowly falling off, he's still one of the very best in the world overall even today, so much so that he'd be considered a really big deal if he'd just shown up and were rising through the ranks instead of falling.

Obviously there are intense advantages to color neutrality, but sticking with one color has an intense advantage as well: There's an argument that every year spent solving with one dedicated color requires six years to be as familiar with that particular color for a color neutral solver. How long has Yiheng been solving? I think like 5 years (correct me if I'm wrong). So he might only be 8-years-old, but that's the equivalent of a whopping 30 years of experience on white for a color neutral solver.

We might have to soon reassess which is the bigger advantage. I'm sure white pieces couldn't hide from him if their lives depended on it.

It's also worth noting that even many advanced color neutral solvers choose not to be on bigger cubes already. Part of me wishes I had stuck with one color.

 

[Tabe]

So far it's still on there
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It wouldn't disappear instantly. It'll require an investigation, etc.

 

[Cuber987]

It wouldn't disappear instantly. It'll require an investigation, etc.

Oh ok

 

[caleb_g]

wang is scary ngl