All about cubing.
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’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 […]
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 […]
As of June 2022, I am officially sponsored not only by TheCubicle, the world’s most prominent cubing retailer, but also QiYi Toys, one of the most renowned cube manufacturers! QiYi Toys has produced many of the best products for cubing, which has been proven through the various world records and […]
