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Andrew Xie

3×3 · top 0.71% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2015 · 2015XIEA01

Andrew Xie has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.34, set at Rutgers Winter 2025, puts him in the top 0.71% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 470th in the United States. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 38 competitions since April 2015, he has put 1,244 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 63% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.42 in April 2015 to 6.34, a 59% improvement. Andrew has entered 38 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.71% of 284,439 all-time
6.34
signature single · Rutgers Winter 2025
1,244
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.348.13
top 0.71%470 / 59,724
4×426.7528.78
top 1.3%218 / 19,072
5×556.101:04.93
top 3.8%312 / 9,401
3×3 one-handed12.7816.68
top 4.1%594 / 15,683
Pyraminx4.127.42
top 8.3%2,116 / 28,708
2×22.503.49
top 8.9%3,497 / 40,951
Skewb6.6613.58
top 31.0%5,117 / 18,907
Megaminx1:47.232:01.89
top 38.8%2,782 / 7,841

Percentile against all competitors ever ranked in each event, a fairer measure than raw rank, because the pools differ by a factor of ten.

The line so far

Yale Spring 2015: 15.42US Nationals 2015: 11.17Liberty Science 2015: 8.92Red Cross Cubing Open 2016: 9.82Princeton Winter 2016: 9.52Cube For A Cure Spring 2016: 9.37Princeton Fall 2016: 11.15World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 9.16Hudson Valley Fall 2017: 8.79Liberty Science Center Open 2017: 8.21Penn Cube Day Winter 2018: 7.87Incredible Pencil Mania 2018: 8.58Rutgers Spring 2018: 7.23Lower Moreland Spring 2018: 8.13North Plainfield Open 2018: 8.32CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018: 7.74Brooklyn 2018: 6.97First State 2018: 7.79CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 8.02Pennsylvania 2018: 8.12Fall Foliage Cubing 2018: 8.77CubingUSA New Jersey Championship 2018: 8.59Penn Cube Day Fall 2018: 8.16Princeton Winter 2019: 8.22Ridge Cubing 2019: 7.95CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 8.09Ridge Cubing Fall 2019: 8.05Pop Off Princeton 2025: 8.26Rutgers Winter 2025: 6.34Flushing Glow Open AM 2025: 8.21PBs in Palisades Winter 2025: 7.66Liberty Science Center Open A 2025: 8.05Summit Summer 2025: 8.72Fort Lee Summer 2025: 7.22Cubing in the Ocean County 2025: 7.15CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2025: 7.36Liberty Science Center Fall B 2025: 7.46NYU Spring 2026: 11.136.3415.424 Apr 20155 Apr 2026

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

Competitions

Reading this page: a single is one solve's time · an average is the middle three of five solves, best and worst discarded · a PB is a personal best · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · top X% compares against everyone ever ranked in that event, which is fairer than raw rank because event pools differ tenfold.

The circuit

The people whose scorecards keep turning up next to his.

  • Livia Kleiner — met in 141 rounds, finished ahead 54 times
  • Patrick Ponce — met in 136 rounds, never finished ahead
  • Dana Yi — met in 134 rounds, finished ahead 21 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.34 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 1.75 away.

Targets move as he improves.