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 […]
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 […]
Note: this post is pinned to the top of my blog. From July 5 to August 3, I went on arguably the biggest trip of my life thus far. Over the past 30 days, I’ve visited 7 countries, attended 3 major cubing competitions, and did many activities an average tourist […]
Note: This post is pinned to the top of my blog. I’m officially a world record holder! This past weekend, I had the opportunity to attend the CubingUSA Northeast Championship in Boston, Massachusetts. There, I broke the world record in Square-1 with a 5.02 average, beating the previous record (6.06) by […]
Note: This post is pinned to the top of my blog. Over the past five years, I have competed at well over 80 cubing competitions all around the world. I, along with some of my closest friends, decided it was high time that we organize our own competition for the […]
Note: This post is pinned to the top of my blog. On Saturday, July 17, 2021, I competed in Idaho Summer B 2021, my first cubing competition since February 2020 (the COVID-19 pandemic prevented me from going to any competitions for almost seventeen months). I was extremely excited and glad […]
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 […]
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 […]
