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Bailing Hou

Square-1 · top 0.11% of 25,272 all-time · competing since January 2018 · 2018HOUB01

Bailing Hou has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the Square-1: a personal-best single of 4.48, set at Lexing-not-a-ton of NxNs 2024, puts him in the top 0.11% of the 25,272 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in Canada. Until April 2022, no official Square-1 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 27 competitions since January 2018, he has put 1,129 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.87 in January 2018 to 7.58, a 62% improvement. Bailing has entered 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Square-1
best event — top 0.11% of 25,272 all-time
4.48
signature single · Lexing-not-a-ton of NxNs 2024
1,129
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
Square-14.487.59
top 0.11%1 / 952
3×37.589.41
top 2.1%216 / 10,392
2×22.214.09
top 6.3%408 / 7,173
3×3 one-handed14.2717.60
top 6.6%139 / 2,620
4×435.0340.85
top 6.7%153 / 3,118
Pyraminx4.706.99
top 11.4%428 / 4,858
Skewb4.356.97
top 13.4%285 / 2,907
5×51:14.611:17.74
top 15.0%174 / 1,499
3×3 blindfolded1:06.581:31.50
top 15.1%47 / 351
Megaminx1:15.731:20.59
top 19.1%175 / 1,375
6×62:27.042:41.63
top 24.0%121 / 665
Clock10.8713.40
top 29.5%263 / 1,029
7×74:13.534:25.48
top 35.6%144 / 503
3×3 Multi-Blind5 of 6 cubes · 48:28—
top 46.4%51 / 112

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

Skyline Open 2018: 19.87Puget Sound Spring 2018: 16.38SnoCo Summer 2018: 13.04CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2018: 11.92Puget Sound NxNxN 2018: 10.12Puget Sound Fall 2019: 10.33Richmond Open Summer A 2022: 8.58SnoCo NxN 2022: 9.04Sleepless in Seattle 2023: 9.00Washington Championship 2023: 8.80CubingUSA Southern Championship 2023: 9.05Canadian Championship 2023: 7.58Richmond Summer Open 2023: 10.35SnoCo Has Too Much 3x3 2023: 7.88Kent Summer 2023: 8.71Lucky Lynnwood 2023: 9.61Kenmore Mini A 2024: 8.66Lexing-not-a-ton of NxNs 2024: 7.81Warm Up Seattle 2025: 9.84Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 9.21White Rock's Back to Square-1 2025: 8.17Ocean State Cubikon 2025: 9.18Brown Cubing Day 2026: 8.677.5819.8727 Jan 201821 Feb 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-4 Square-1 single — 11 people have one; it is 0.48 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.58 away.

Targets move as he improves.