Yiheng Wang sets 3x3 world record average in Hefei
Yiheng Wang’s 3.51 average in Hefei reset the 3x3 ceiling, cutting more than half a second off his own 4.03 world-record pace.
Yiheng Wang did more than break a world record in Hefei. He pushed the 3x3 average into a new bracket, putting up 3.51 seconds at the Hefei Cubing League 3x3 III 2026 and showing just how far the event’s ceiling has moved in a single season. For a discipline where hundredths matter and a bad turn can wreck an entire round, that kind of gap is not a tweak. It is dominance.
The result came on June 17, 2026, at Think Academy (Greenland Lanhai Campus), Building C, Greenland Lanhai International Mansion, No. 210, Qianshan Road, in Shushan Government District, Hefei, Anhui, China. CubingCAT ran the competition, with WCA delegates Chenxi Shan, Xinyu Chen, and Zhiheng Wang overseeing the event. The official WCA Live results confirmed the performance, while the World Cube Association competition page still listed the results as being processed.
The record matters because it was not just fast by normal elite standards, it was fast by Yiheng Wang standards. His WCA profile now lists the 3.51 average as his current world-record average in 3x3x3 Cube, along with a 3.06-second world-record single. It also shows a 0.87-second 2x2x2 average world record, plus strong results across 4x4x4, 5x5x5, Pyraminx, Skewb, and one-handed 3x3. In other words, this is not a one-off specialist result. It is the profile of a cuber who keeps raising the bar across events.
The comparison to his own recent history is what makes the 3.51 even more striking. At the Rubik’s WCA World Championship 2025 in Seattle, Yiheng Wang won 3x3x3 Cube with a 4.23-second average. Before that, at Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2025, he had already set a world-record average of 4.03 seconds. He also placed second in 3x3x3 Cube at Hefei Cubing League 3x3 I 2026 with a 4.31 average. Moving from 4.03 to 3.51 is a massive cut at the top end of the sport, and it suggests the next elite benchmark will now be measured against a much harsher standard.
The reaction was instant across SpeedSolving and YouTube, where the solve was being discussed as a new world record almost as soon as it posted. Community posts also noted that Yiheng Wang was just 11 years old at the time. That combination, youth and a record average that drops the event’s expected pace by a clear margin, is exactly the kind of result that changes how the next round of 3x3 competition gets judged.
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