0.78s 2x2 WR Average | Yiheng Wang

[@STUCUBE]

And with that the 2x2 event has officially concluded, I would like to thank everyone who has done official solves and all the memories along the way

[@Eric___X]

finally something for you to make a video on

[@reddyxd88]

lol

[@HatsuneAmi]

Bros got new content to milk on

[@epiclydev]

you are slower than a 6 year old

[@Miles-x7m]

We are being left in the dust

[@JJCuber27]

As well as demolishing the WR average, Yiheng also: -Got the worlds first official pure sub-1 average (0.97 worst solve) -Broke the previous TPS WR (17.2) twice (solve 1, 18.91, solve 4, 19.23 TPS) -Had an average of 16.46 TPS throughout the 5 solves -Had a worst counting time of 0.81, sub previous WR average by 0.11

[@ioannisntalis]

Excuse me, what?

[@ioannisntalis]

Ok I literally have no words anymore

[@Nammie_Nguyen]

@@ioannisntalisI agree with you too

[@oshiriyuko]

WTF

[@MannifyYT2024]

No fucking words.

[@OfficialFlexes]

I feel like this would be the perfect time to say “Thanks for watching” and then just remove 2x2 as an event

[@thecalculatedcreativecoder1428]

I nearly rolled off my bed laughing at this 😂

[@HàLâmKiệt]

This kid literally smashed Zayn's journey of breaking 2x2 WR 💀

[@dezcubing5844]

0.03 seconds off of ytwb

[@cognitaferamacademics]

​@@dezcubing5844 0.07*

[@CuBOYid]

@@dezcubing5844💀

[@spaykywr6785]

poor zayn 😭 he deserved the 2x2 record MORE than anyone in the world, he was the person who worked the hardest for years in 2x2, I can't imagine how he must feel

[@loonyfast]

Hasn't he held the record for years? Yiheng would have to hold this record for at least 3 years to get to zayns level of domination

[@Square-one123]

I’m very surprised how this comment section has like no mentions of sliding at all

[@zeccy337]

It's literally impossible to see if someone is sliding unless you break it down frame by frame and analyze every single frame. This sliding issue is so dumb, unless you're touching the cube when the time hasn't started, it shouldn't be an issue. If this is illegal we'll need to start recording every single solve in 4k 120fps and analyze every single frame to make sure their fingers leave the timer at the exact precise moment

[@Square-one123]

@@zeccy337 or better yet, disallow it and just suck up the messy process for now and use something like 4-pad or high-friction tape to prevent sliding from ever happening in the future. (so we don't have to go through the messy process again)

[@zeccy337]

@@Square-one123 My point is that "sliding" isn't exactly an easy thing to spot, and if we're going to go on a witchhunt, hundreds of not thousands of times would be disqualified. You might be "sliding" even if you didn't know. I guarantee you if I took apart the solves of a random cuber and slowed it down to milliseconds, you can find that their fingers are on the timer for a couple frames more. This is the reason why the WCA forbids frame by frame inspection. When you slow things down to milliseconds almost every solve is "suspicious". Aha! The timer started 0.1017281 seconds longer after the tips of your fingers left the timer. You're sliding! Everyone will start going on a witchhunt and we'll all need to start pointing slow mo cameras at every single solve. It sets a ridiculous precedent

[@MythicWiz]

​@@zeccy337yea but he is turning before the timer even starts here

[@fantiscious]

That’s it guys, it’s time to start titling vids “Non-Yiheng WR”

[@flashraylaser157]

Reminds me of the Feliks Zemdegs reign. There was a good little while when there was a bit of elevated interest in who was second place in any given category because it was just a given that Feliks was first.

[@invasiv3836]

Fax

[@anucube]

If he had made same amount of efforts on astronomy, we would have already said hi to aliens.

[@TimofeiSopin-ov6dp]

Best comment

[@flashraylaser157]

Yeah great comment

[@hat_cbw6972]

if he had made same amount of efforts on science, we would have already found a way to cure cancer

[@flashraylaser157]

@@hat_cbw6972 Jokes aside, contrary to the rumors about his mom, Yiheng apparently only cubes about an hour per day, seriously, which is insane. Feliks Zemdegs was the same. While he admitted he had occasional days where he cubed for hours, especially early on, he only cubed about 30 minutes to an hour per day while having a full world record sweep of 3x3 to 7x7, averages and singles, for years. The top ten was always shifting but he was always number one. Makes you wonder how good he might have been if he practiced a crap ton, like Tymon. Maybe they're just built differently but I suspect consistency is key. Feliks might have rarely practiced more than an hour, but that hour DID occur every single day. That makes sense to me. Not to brag so much as to reinforce the idea, but I happen to be what the vast majority of successful guitarists would consider an extremely elite guitarist, at least in terms of shreddy technical prowess even if my musical style wasn't for them. In cubing terms you could probably compare me to someone with a really low 5 average. I've now played for 25 years but 75% of my dexterity was built in the first three years. Kind of like how it's not that uncommon for cubers to get sub-20 in the first year but to require another year for sub-15, then a year for a single second off. Back when practice yielded such fast results, I played about 8 hours per day, but as practice becomes less rewarding so does the will to do it. As a kid I never thought I would go a day in my life not having even touched a guitar. I wouldn't have believed myself if I came from the future and said a time would come that I didn't for two weeks. Here's the point of all this: Turns out developing a high level skill is not at all like riding a bike, and you not only lose skill but will rapidly. The first time I tried playing after just a two week break, it was like back when I'd been playing for just two years, good but nowhere even close to my max ability, not by years. I tried to correct the problem by brute force practice for like 12 hours and I only got a little better. But as soon as I had played at least a while for about 5 days straight, it kicked back in. These days there's not really much more for me to learn so I only practice as much as a hobbyist, but that's what I have to do to maintain my level. I know that's more like "remembering skill" than developing it, but it sometimes makes me wonder if I would have been roughly exactly as good without the 8 hour days, so long as it was everyday like it was. So it's possible Yiheng's secret isn't that he practices longer, but that he never, ever, fails to get that hour or so. It's kind of like time off straight up deletes some total practice time instead of pausing it. But it's also possible he's in a situation like I am on guitar. Where at his level, he knows it could take years and years to get much noticably better, but also knows if he doesn't practice he'll get rusty and lose comps. But it's possible it was just former extreme practice too. A common claim I see from people at the top of almost anything is, "All day? Haha, no. I'm lazy. You probably _____ more than me yourself. Well... I mean, to be fair, I guess it kind of was my whole life at one point, but that was when I was a kid."

[@OP-pe4yc]

​​@@flashraylaser157 Interesting comment. Right now I'm training for sprinting and there was a phase where I had no drive to practice. I acknowledged the issue and I identified the problem to be like a lack of direction or like my routine wasn't yielding as much results anymore. Just right after that, I broke down the parts that I actually needed to practice, and it exposed so many paths that I spent like 12 hours of the day training. I just couldn't get enough of it after that because there was always something to work towards to, and something to improve on. Been a month after that day and I'm still on the same boat. Tbh I think I can go for years like this if I control everything well and make sure I don't get injured. Well that's the goal at least. Imma snap back to reality now (do my chores and stuff).

[@1lookguy]

That concludes the 2x2 event, its over boys, time to move on to 5bld.

[@harsimarjotsingh8183]

Yiheng be like : Hold for me guys, I'm on the way. 😅

[@thecalculatedcreativecoder1428]

Yiheng in 2040: *Aggressively one-looks 5x5*

[@Nw_Cubes]

@@harsimarjotsingh8183dude fr he’s coming in like a year or two I guarantee it

[@harsimarjotsingh8183]

​@@thecalculatedcreativecoder1428 I believe till then he will be one looking 21×21 😂

[@flashraylaser157]

@@Nw_Cubes Jokes aside, Yiheng would likely be an incredible blind solver and I suspect it's what he'll focus on when he's older and newer Chinese kids from similar programs are faster than him at 3x3. The fact is he can memorize the positions and orientation of 12 separate pieces and assemble the first two layers blind with advanced CFOP as the cube dynamically changes. That is unreal, not how blind solving works at all. He also seems to be able to predict PLL from looking at OLL. That means if he does happen to get a solve he's confident on what the OLL will be from his plans for F2L, he can potentially predict the PLL in inspection as well. He doesn't have to be able to do this often. All he has to do is manage to once and the single will forever belong to him until someone else can use conventional methods but blind. As for bigger cubes, he'll use standard blind methods, but someone who can memorize a 3x3 cube so well they can mentally see it turn and update their mental view of the cube as the situation updates would likely find merely memorizing a 5x5x5 and using a blind method child's play. I'm pretty good at memorizing hundreds of pieces of information, but it's way harder to memorize even just 20 so well that it's like your eyes are open. Given that he's basically there, he might be trouble for blind solving in the future. He'll probably at least eventually snag the blind 3x3 single, even if it's just one record like when Feliks randomly took the blind 4x4 single.

[@zacharymillercubing]

where were u wen 2x2 die i was at house eating dorito when phone ring “2x2 is kil” “no”

[@giovanialdian6348]

I am sade 😢😢

[@laurikorhonencubes]

🥹

[@dailycubing3]

😢

[@laurikorhonencubes]

@@The_Unknown19828 no

[@ceqell]

i was fartid on toilet whn litle bro scramed "why did scram" "2x2 event explosion" "nooooooo" 😢😢😢😢

[@anonymous11119-m]

a HUGE jump from 0.92 WR. Congratulations yiheng

[@smithsmith3344]

Huge indeed. If the 3x3 WR average was cut by the same percentage, it would be 3.79.

[@samueljehanno]

​@@smithsmith3344not impossible right

[@arisandra]

Insane times

[@BrianJohnsonCubing]

Wow these are ridiculously good solves, congrats! Impressively short inspection times as well.

[@CubeHead]

can I pretty please use this vid for a recon vid? I will credit

[@d.a.b1404]

hi cubehead

[@emeraldforce5688]

Yooooo

[@anonymous11119-m]

pretty yes mommy

[@JaydenKaiYang]

sure thing 🙌🏻

[@table5584]

@@JaydenKaiYangかっこいい人

[@RamThakkar]

Pack it up guys, 2x2 is over 👍🫡

[@ioannisntalis]

Facts 🫡

[@tomaustinmedia]

ITS BEEN REAL

[@MazezCubing]

We’re all screwed - nobody is ever getting WR average again

[@thekaeden]

yeah i quit its time to learn bld now

[@cubingtony1]

Bro was so fast almost no one celebrated cause they all expected this wr

[@slowcuber6764]

How nice of him to let Zayn get the first ever sub-1 average!

[@flashraylaser157]

Actually, yeah. Imagine how bad it would suck to have worked as hard has Zayn as at 2x2 only to have the first sub-1 snatched at the last minute. I'm happy for Zayn. He got his payoff just in time, even if he never holds the record again. The 2x2 record will gradually change for decades to come. If the day comes that ten people have passed Yiheng, some newer cubers won't think much of his old records, but Zayn will forever be who broke that last second barrier. Kind of like how Feliks will also be who broke so many 3x3 barriers first. He's now like 15th place but still a bigger name than everyone faster, solely because of how much he did first, how much he proved was possible before anyone else. I think it's kind of how Tymon feels about Pyraminx. He used to be THE pyraminx guy, not known for 3x3. He broke the last barrier and then someone else did and beat him on the very same day. Tymon said he wouldn't want to trade places because the average record holder is gonna change a million times but the first person to do something doesn't change, ever. At that point he didn't even seem to care as much about pyraminx and moved onto maining 3x3

[@JellyK2133]

Zayn: gets a first sub 1 official 2x2 average wr Yiheng:Hold my beer

[@BeybladeBros-cl2oh]

You mean apple juice

[@JellyK2133]

@@BeybladeBros-cl2oh yeah haha

[@lombre9149]

yiheng got 0.93 before zayn 0.92

[@G_B_Ent]

@@lombre9149but that one didn’t count. Until it did

[@christianissloh]

zayn and Nigel rlly need to cook now 🔥

[@thekaeden]

haha

[@aubreynyoni150]

They ain’t cooking shit😭💀Yiheng gonna cook harder…Bro wasn’t even phased he knows he can do better

[@d.a.b1404]

well i hope they beat him. yiheng is going to demolish us all until he quits cubing. Which will probably be next to never since he is currently 9. i think.

[@Kalenloves4x4]

@@aubreynyoni150they gonna cook believe it or not

[@EddieCubing]

Light work no reaction

[@sussybaka8608]

meanwhile: *stucube searching for a new video title

[@zfkdiyi]

Faster then 90% people start the time watch - pick up cube - do nothing and stop the time watch.

[@ThisIsWEB]

Yiheng Wang solves faster than you can say "Yiheng Wang"

[@danielstandring7529]

It's not April Fools today

[@KermitlaranaYouTuber24]

* Zayn proceeds to focus entirely on skewb*

[@pi3.1415]

and this record is no more! to be more specific, it never was a record

[@pi3.1415]

but yiheng still holds the wr (tied with zayn) so congrats to him anyways!

[@rujon288]

GG yiheng! he's leading more in 2x2 than 3x3 now

[@thecalculatedcreativecoder1428]

He's been practicing 2x2 more

[@fantiscious]

4.48’s the harder one to beat actually

[@thecalculatedcreativecoder1428]

@@fantiscious He has a 3.79 average at home. Maybe faster, but that is his fastest on cam. I'm suprised he hasn't gotten a sub 4.48 average in comp yet with all mid 4 averages he's gotten so far.

[@samueljehanno]

​@@thecalculatedcreativecoder1428probably hard lol

[@fantiscious]

@@thecalculatedcreativecoder1428 oh right, i meant for someone else defeating him

[@antoniepaterakis7315]

Ooooopsieee

[@qywang1023]

he was limited by his age so that he could only hold the 2x2 and 3x3 world records. I believe he will be the world's best cuber in more events too. Who knows❤

[@Bryn..]

pack it up boys he’s gone and done it Seriously tho Yiheng is insane 🔥

[@ioannisntalis]

I refuse to believe that this is true 💀

[@RubiKubiK313]

And with that the 2x2 season has come to an end, good night.

[@table5584]

First sub 0.9 and sub 0.8 2x2 Ao5 everyone! He has shown that our time has come and we now have to do multiblind to beat the cubers.

[@Arm0nd0iscool]

And now it is 3.47

[@SLTM5713]

Here since WCA decided to keep this as WR💀

[@pi3.1415]

nope

[@SLTM5713]

@@pi3.1415 Out here sinced

[@Gretchaninov]

How is there such a non-reaction to such an amazing new WR? I mean, he just crushed every single other 2x2 cuber effortlessly.

[@youuuuuuuuuuutube]

He optimized every single step, that's how you do it!

[@harsimarjotsingh8183]

Everyone in the comment : 2×2 is over. Let's move to Pyraminx, multiblind, 5bld etc. Yiheng be like : Just hold on guys, I'm on the way. 😅😂

[@rarecuber]

What I CAN do is just watch this and laugh at my whole cubing career

[@MonneTheMoon]

Guys, we are doomed

[@franFPShooter]

Damn . He s gonna solve a 4x4 in like 10 seconds probably.

[@flashraylaser157]

It'll happen eventually with enough skill and luck. By luck I don't mean just the scramble itself but also what becomes of the cube as a consequence of your turns, but that wasn't consciously planned. Back in 2013 or so, when I averaged about 2:45 on 4x4, I got this crazy outlier solve that was barely over a minute, unreal PB. And other than that one center was done, it didn't look easy or half done or something. It was just that every edge pair I made was magically forming others although by accident. Ever had a 3x3 solve where every pair set up the next one, unplanned, making F2L basically free? It was kind of like that but with darn near every edge. If someone like Max Park ran into that kind of edge pairing luck, had no parity, and got a particularly good 3x3 case, a sub-10 could happen. Alternatively someone could get so good that they can intentionally setup perfect cascading edge formation like that. Given that Yiheng can darn near blind solve a 3x3 with CFOP, he might possess such spatial awareness. We'll see as he ages and his hands grow.

[@DaneSoong]

There is a new event guys. It is called nobody is changing the WR or 2 by 2 (expect Yiheng)

[@madinafaizul7918]

I literally saw yiheng and was truly impressed by his skills

[@ll-lw8vn]

I guess that is what it feels like see Usain Bolt running 9.58

[@typo0746]

I don’t think this one’s gonna be beaten for a long time.

[@flashraylaser157]

Yiheng will break it later this year.

[@HowToCube99]

The kid is TEN, and he just shut down an event.

[@d.a.b1404]

Remember, this guy is 10. He hasn't even gone into middle school.

[@rk31]

yiheng wang is going from event to event, making sure to get an unbreakable wr to end the event, first 3x3, now 2x2, next is pyraminx (it is his third best event)

[@flashraylaser157]

I feel kind of bad for Max Park. Feliks Zemdegs once held the record, single and average, for 3x3 through 7x7 and OH as well. Max Park's professed dream was to become the second person to ever do that. He came so close but events in one-handed, Du's ahead of its time 3x3 single, Nahm snatching a 6x6 record, and OH solvers always kept him at least one record short. He was always capable of beating whatever record though. Not anymore. He is never gonna beat Yiheng at 3x3 average now. Feliks will likely forever be the only one who did that. But there's a chance that as Yiheng's hands grow, he'll conquer the big cubes fast enough to pull it off before some new little kid takes 3x3 from him in his late teens or early 20s. If he pulls it off, he can truly say he's the first person to simultaneously hold literally all sighted cubic events, because Feliks skipped out on 2x2. I fully believe Feliks could have had 2x2 as well but he didn't even like the event and felt its records would always be a matter of luck, not who was best. And he was kinda right until people like Zayn and Yiheng proved you CAN consistently dominate the event with practice.

[@JKcubing-u8f]

bro literally overcooked💀 btw congrats Yi Heng🙂

[@quakenburg]

It’s over y’all. We’re done.

[@YouxunYao]

What a ridiculous average 😂 that's crazy, congratulations yiheng🎉

[@Cubing4U]

Bro! I was just trying to enjoy this cinnamon roll but then it turns out my favorite event is done! What the heck!

[@tetrawaffle337]

2x2 got the clock treatment

[@squirrelcubed31415]

Welp, that's it, folks. Another event with the competition and joy sucked out of it before most of us had the chance to get good

[@Nikolozi.Jokhadze]

AND THE CROUD WENT mild!!

[@Dooooooble-ace]

Before: 2X2 IS SO FUN… after: oh crap. TIME FOR CLOCK

[@sultanbekovchyngyz-speedcuber]

CRAZYYY,pure sub 1

[@Speedcubenz]

What an absolute ripper! Amazing 🙌

[@VoidDevX1]

I was there behind the camera. Also congrats on ur NR single

[@samueljehanno]

NR single ??? Wdym

[@Cubefan000]

Bro pulled out an Eryk move right there. Nah Cubing is doomed. 🙏💀

[@WillyyCubing]

WHAT how yihenggg omgg. Crazy time

[@thecalculatedcreativecoder1428]

Bro just won 2x2 and his only reaction is: ✊️

[@Gillcubes15]

Zayn is cooked 💀

[@rodrigoqteixeira]

Bro getting times that would be unthinkable to me and not reacting, like "arl, good time"

[@reddyxd88]

Yoooooo congrats to Yiheng Wang!!!

[@axo342]

Bro 2x2 is just going to become like the rubiks magic or 3x3 with feet 💀

[@samueljehanno]

Wdym why feet ?

[@axo342]

@@samueljehanno events that were removed

[@luohao2321]

​@@axo342why was it removed

[@axo342]

@@luohao2321 feet was removed right before COVID because it was unsanitary

[@flashraylaser157]

@@axo342 Didn't feet get removed a few years ahead of COVID-19? I remember it was in fact removed due to sanitation reasons and that it was unpopular, but I could have sworn that was years before COVID, just before stickerless cubes were finally allowed. Idk. Time is starting to blur together.

[@esjelly]

I’m waiting for 3x3 sub 4-average maybe yiheng or tymon

[@aubreynyoni150]

Pyraminx and Skewb next💀💀💀

[@somerandomdudedoingstuff]

i am extremely happy for Yiheng but i'm responsible that this could be the end of the wr 2x2 averages.

[@madghostek3026]

This category is unironically done, solved

[@FriskyPotat0]

Lmao he let Zane rightfully claim the first official sub 1 then hits back by skipping sub .9 straight to this?! Beast

[@osmanbadroodin123]

Actually they reinstated yihengs first 0.93 so zayn didn't get the first sub 1 Actually

[@rodrigoqteixeira]

WHAT DA HECK WAS THAT TPS IN THE FIRST SOLVE BRO?!!! 😮

[@osmanbadroodin123]

18.7 tps but the 4th solve was 19.2

[@rodrigoqteixeira]

@@osmanbadroodin123 damn

[@teammathcraft]

Wow. Imagine yiheng in 5 years time… *0.43 2x2 WR average*

[@Onelemon1354]

this kid is crazy. seriously we're all doomed

[@jrad8094]

Here’s where the CBL solvers have to step it up now

[@NoahCubez]

This is just actually insane!

[@altafhossain7793]

And, none of his solutions was just lucky 4/5 movers! Like... I am speechless

[@kitkoonhatesbigcubes]

Insane!

[@oscarcorona4207]

No crying needed, congrats!

[@joshuasenn6607]

All my fellow 2x2 solvers we are done for😅

[@cat-oi5hl]

Ight well time to practice 4x4 yehing

[@sidreddyofficial]

okay what the sigma

[@zeroing000]

Avg Sid comment

[@_Electroo_]

I dont wanna solve 2x2 anymore

[@notyou8508]

That is incredible omg

[@scuvastebe5778]

I wonder what his 2x2 average pb at home is. The look on his face tells me he’s gotten a way better time than that.

[@Arm0nd0iscool]

Can I use your footage for a video summarizing the whole sliding controversy?

[@futurecuber24]

sure!

[@Jogandojuntoyt]

Zayn is being real quiet after this

[@sumitkk82]

Zain journey in 2x2 is over

[@ExtremeGamer-wx1hg]

Bro be like, anything above 1 second solve is bad for me.

[@szefuśfloppa2115]

If he starts practicing pyraminx i would quit cubing

[@dachiiiii]

yiheng redemption 🦅🦅

[@APersonOnYootoob]

Wait until Yiheng dominates prya, he’s top 60 there and we are gonna be doomed 💀

[@DustyCubes]

It's over.

[@amirdecena4333]

Zayn: Ha Get rekt kid Yiheng: u sure abt that Zayn if you see this THIS IS A JOKE

[@pietroangelillo7106]

Hello, someone can tell me why this WR is not a WR anymore ? Thank you !

[@nmrs4342]

he slided, and that's illegal because it does not follow two of the rules A4b) The competitor uses their fingers to touch the elevated sensor surfaces of the Stackmat timer. The competitor's palms must be facing down, and located on the side of the timer that is closer to the competitor. Penalty: time penalty (+2 seconds). A4b1) The competitor must have no physical contact with the puzzle while starting the solve. Penalty: time penalty (+2 seconds).

[@pietroangelillo7106]

@ I understand now, thank you a lot !

[@TheKoreanStacker]

Bros not even suprised

[@stemer5356]

bro solved the cube under 1sec for over 5 times

[@mr_pich]

It’s all over

[@TheKoreanStacker]

Didn’t realize it said 0.78 average

[@Cube_kid11]

He’s too good

[@adriangd5040]

we’re all screwed

[@newkennguyen]

that’s all folks!