People · China
Boxuan Fan (范柏轩)
3×3 · top 0.22% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2016 · 2016FANB01
Boxuan Fan (范柏轩) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.42, set at Guangzhou Small Cubes 2025, puts him in the top 0.22% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 93rd in China. Until April 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since August 2016, he has put 465 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 67% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.17 in August 2016 to 5.42, a 41% improvement. Boxuan has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 5.42 | 7.14 | top 0.22% | 93 / 28,153 | |
| 4×4 | 26.51 | 28.83 | top 1.2% | 113 / 5,926 | |
| 5×5 | 48.38 | 58.23 | top 1.3% | 54 / 2,816 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 12.14 | 14.79 | top 3.2% | 273 / 5,922 | |
| 2×2 | 3.27 | 4.01 | top 17.4% | 2,812 / 15,796 | |
| 6×6 | 2:29.18 | 2:37.33 | early days — 3 solves | 541 / 1,349 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 9 Nov 2025Three personal bests in one day at Guangzhou Small Cubes 2025.
- 22 Jun 2024Four personal bests in one day at Shenzhen Nanshan Open 2024.
- 20 Aug 2017Three personal bests in one day at Shantou Open 2017.
- 26 Mar 2017Three personal bests in one day at GDSY Open 2017.
- 13 Aug 2016First competition: Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2016. A 11.02 3×3 single to start from.
- 13 Aug 2016First sub-10 3×3: 9.17 at Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2016.
Competitions
- Guangdong Open - Revival & Rival 2026 · 6 Feb 2026
- Canton Countdown 2025 · 31 Dec 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Guangzhou Big Cubes 2025 · 21 Dec 2025
- Guangzhou Small Cubes 2025 · 9 Nov 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Jiangmen Open 2025 · 24 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Huizhou 10th Anniversary 2024 · 28 Jul 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Shenzhen Nanshan Open 2024 · 22 Jun 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Shenzhen Open 2023 · 24 Dec 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Guangdong Open 2021 · 1 May 2021
- Guangzhou Panyu Morning 2021 · 28 Feb 2021
- Jieyang Winter 2019 · 27 Jan 2019
- Dongguan Mid-Autumn Festival 2018 · 22 Sep 2018 — 1 personal best set
- Guangdong Open 2018 · 30 Apr 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- Yangjiang Open 2018 · 10 Feb 2018 — 1 personal best set
- China's 10th Anniversary Championship 2017 · 1 Oct 2017 — 1 personal best set
- Shantou Open 2017 · 20 Aug 2017 — 3 personal bests set
- GDSY Open 2017 · 26 Mar 2017 — 3 personal bests set
- Dongguan Open 2017 · 22 Jan 2017 — 1 personal best set
- Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2016 · 13 Aug 2016 — 2 personal bests set
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.
- Xusheng Hong (洪旭升) — met in 50 rounds, finished ahead 49 times
- Ruohan Qiu (邱若寒) — met in 48 rounds, finished ahead 33 times
- Zijian Cai (蔡子健) — met in 48 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
Next targets
- A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.42 away.
- A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 1.51 away.
Targets move as he improves.