Ganyuan Jiang
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Ganyuan Jiang (江淦源), also known as GAN, is a Chinese speedcuber, and the founder of the GAN speedcubing brand.
The first WCA-sanctioned Chinese speedcubing tournament was the Guangdong Open 2007. Jiang won the 3x3x3 competition with a best average time of 15.46 seconds and a best single time of 13.43 seconds, setting the first Chinese national records for this event. He also set early records for the 3x3x3 One-Handed.
He is said to have been an early promoter of the CFOP method in China: "he firstly uploaded CFOP video online; the CFOP formula sorting by GAN became the required course of all speed cubers."[1]
Around 2006 he was one of the developers of the first Chinese DIY Rubik's cube kit known as the GuoJia or Type A cube. In March 2011 he released his own cube: the first Gans cube.[2]
He founded the GanCube company in 2014.[3]
