The Yiheng Wang Problem

“Two steps ahead. I am always two steps ahead..."
- Me after archiving 1 terabyte worth of Yiheng Wang videos and uploading them one by one for years on end

Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:40 ZB Method
2:40 Future of CFOP
3:40 How Fast is he Actually?
5:30 How Long will it Last?
6:48 Outro

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Yiheng Wang 4.36 world record average

#cubing #speedcubing

[ThamosProductions]

Y’all seem to be forgetting that yiheng can still learn full zb whenever

[chezeus]

14 years later, i finally understand that grumpy woman who told me that's a game for kids.
she was actually right.

[AJ-edmx]

yall just remember cubing is a young persons thing. what I mean by that, is that kids tend to have little to almost no responsibilities, their brains can think about cubing all day and night for years if they wanted

[pizza_tom]

The difference between wr1 and wr2 is the same difference between wr2 and wr10.

All hail King Yiheng 🙌

[Rubberduckboy]

When Yiheng starts big cubes. God help us all.

[kotlceditz]

Yiheng with the 3.08 today is crazy 💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥

[curiousNic]

A sub-5 official ao100 is crazy impressive and I can't wait to see what's yet to come. Never count out Tymon though. He was even practicing ZBLS in between judging 2x2 last comp and will be prepared for Worlds. They both will put on a spectacle for us. PS: Congrats on 20k subs!

[westong]

Watching this right now without knowing shit about cubing and I feel like I'm trying to understand hieroglyphics with some of these terms lol

[DZSRUBIKSCUBE]

Seeing all this makes me think myself dumb as I can't even predict my first pair

[EliteCuberr]

I want to get into making long-form content, but how am I supposed to compete with this?? This is a legit movie, man. Your videos are legendary.

[SilverCuber]

Watching a STU video with a snack hits different. Truly fascinating the way you talk

[jsprte]

“Yiheng will be one of the only finalists using CFOP”

It’s confirmed guys. The Rouxvolution is taking over

[AnotherExtraFist]

Thanks for this video. Superb analysis. From someone who has avoided even trying for decades!!!

[matthiashacker]

Suppose Yiheng's max TPS ends up being around 20+ TPS. The two extra moves he does over Tymon will only cost him 0.1 seconds, and considering no-one else has his lookahead or TPS, that 0.1 second isn't going to cause him any issues.

[vedantdeddo]

the fact that he said yiheng will probably break WR next week and it happened 9 days later is fucking hilarious

[yinyangsepticruski]

YiHeng is probably one of the craziest anomalies in terms of cubing performance and improvement like Tymon a few years back.

Also, daily "hate" message:
I'm not a fan of crustacean foods.

[sebastianstonewca]

yihengs coach has stated that yiheng will not be learning zb as his transition from oll to pll is way too fast for him to save really any time because he will still have to recognize the zb and execute the alg faster than oll and pll which for him is very hard

[kr_ykoo]

0:20 not to be rude, just educational. most polish words are accented on the second syllable to the last. obviously the same rule applies to last names so if you'd like to pronounce them correctly (again, i'm not judging, just letting you know) it should sound more like plesk-oh-vich, not plesko-vich. like tymon's last name kolasinski, it's pronounced kola-sin-ski which everyone tends to accent correctly, but his first name tymon - accenting on the "mon" syllable which actually should be accented at the "ty" syllable

[jettyung]

Interesting topic. For Big Cubes, almost everyone has eventually switched to Yau, but I think Max Park still uses Redux for 5x5 and up (and he's still at the top)

[hperm]

Cubing History

1974 - Erno Rubik makes Rubik's cube
1975-1981 - Rubik's Cubes first sold
1982-2003 - Minh Thai Reigns
2003-2009 - WCA Wild West Era
2009-202? - CFOP Era (Feliks, Max, Yiheng)
? - Little Kid's ZB Era