Yiheng Wang is the 2025 world champion!

It's crazy how far ahead the podium was from the field, and even the gaps between the top 3 was kind of huge. Yiheng, Xuanyi, and Tymon had averages of 4.23, 4.49, and 4.98 respectively, so differences of a 1/4 sec and another 1/2 sec. Fourth place was Qixian with 5.43, and the rest of the top 10 had sub-6 averages. You'd think that as times get faster, the gaps get smaller, but it's like the opposite happened. Incredible final though, Yiheng and Xuanyi trading insane times had me at the edge of my seat.
 
Craziest final so far. Congrats to Yiheng.

To be honest, the 2025 World Championship was an organizational disaster. While "No Flash" became a meme, if you think about it, crowd control should have been the responsibility of the event organizers, not the solver having to call it out.
I watched a lot of the live streams, and I swear I heard Yiheng call out "Flash!" on more than 5 different solves... I thought it was very strange.
 
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