Note: This post is pinned to the top of my blog. July 22, 2023 marks the day I set the world record Square-1 average with a result of 4.91 seconds. This new record marks the end of my 5.02 world record average from over a year ago and is the first […]
Last weekend, on March 18, 2023, I attended Bothell Spring Open 2023. Not only was it the 111th competition I competed in, but it was also the third one I organized. My organizational duties primarily involved planning the entire competition schedule, managing the competition webpage, and responding to several competitor […]
Note: this post is pinned to the top of my blog. On the weekend of February 18-19, 2023, I attended Sleepless in Seattle 2023. It was a special event featuring 24 consecutive hours of cubing! During the Square-1 finals, I managed to break the North American record with a time […]
Recently, I had the urge to deepen my knowledge of programming by exploring computer science from an interdisciplinary standpoint. Specifically, I’ve spent the past few days learning the basics of bioinformatics: the study of applying computing principles to biology! I structured my learning using this list of problems from ROSALIND […]
Recently, I’ve been putting together a tutorial/instructional video series for my YouTube channel, which covers a subset of optimized Rubik’s Cube algorithms called U ZBLL. Learning these algorithms could help a lot of cubers reach sub-10-second times and beyond. Across the six videos in the series, there are a total […]
On December 10, 2022, I broke the world record for Square-1 solve with a result of 4.28 seconds, just barely beating the previous record by 0.05 seconds. I was not expecting this at all. I’m literally speechless. My first thought after breaking this record was simply how poetic and “full-circle” […]
On November 5, 2022, I attended Spokane Fall 2022, my 100th cubing competition. What a journey this has been, and it’s far from over. Since my first competition in February 2017 (I was still in elementary school!), I’ve competed in 6 countries, been on the podium 412 times, and set […]
I recently received a Guinness World Record certificate for my Square-1 world record average back in May! It feels amazing to now have a physical object that recognizes my accomplishment. I remember binging Guinness World Record videos on YouTube when I was in elementary school. I don’t recall much other […]
For almost five months, I’ve been using the prototype of the X-Man Design Tornado V3 M, a flagship 3×3 cube by QiYi Toys. I was able to get early access to this product due to my contract with them. Since then, I’ve been able to achieve many results that I’m […]
Three years ago, I stumbled across a video by WIRED asserting that it’s nearly impossible to solve a Rubik’s Cube in under 3 seconds. At the time, my best ever Rubik’s Cube solve (outside of a competition) was just above four seconds, meaning I would have to shave off an […]
