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Baijie Ling

3×3 · top 10.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2022 · 2022LING06

Baijie Ling has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.90, set at Worlds Prep in Palisades 2025, puts him in the top 10.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5,510th in the United States. Across 11 competitions since September 2022, he has put 196 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 80% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.44 in September 2022 to 10.90, a 53% improvement. Baijie has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 10.2% of 284,439 all-time
10.90
signature single · Worlds Prep in Palisades 2025
196
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 80% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×310.9012.44
top 10.2%5,510 / 59,724
2×23.285.86
top 17.5%6,877 / 40,951
Pyraminx7.3911.79
top 31.1%8,672 / 28,708
4×41:33.22
top 66.0%11,658 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed45.471:03.25
top 72.1%10,394 / 15,683

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

Pretzel Mania 2022: 23.44Pretzel Mania 2023: 16.80CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 11.11Pretzel Mania Summer 2023: 11.95GCU Winter 2024: 13.50Spring into Summit 2024: 13.61Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 12.67Berwick Spring 2025: 11.40Worlds Prep in Palisades 2025: 10.90Long Island Summer 2025: 12.45Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026: 11.0410.9023.443 Sep 202214 Aug 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.90 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.28 away.

Targets move as he improves.