People · China
Can Gu (顾灿)
3×3 · top 5.1% of 288,433 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024GUCA01
Can Gu (顾灿) has been competing for 3 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.07, set at Yancheng Spring Open 2026, puts her in the top 5.1% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,967th in China. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since March 2024, she has put 101 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 62% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 28.82 in March 2024 to 9.07, a 69% improvement. Can has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% 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 | 9.07 | 9.94 | top 5.1% | 1,967 / 28,499 | |
| Pyraminx | 12.26 | 18.91 | top 68.8% | 6,959 / 10,269 | |
| 2×2 | 24.45 | — | early days — 2 solves | 15,624 / 15,939 |
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
- 7 Jun 2025First sub-10 3×3: 9.70 at Yancheng Open 2025.
- 15 Dec 2024First sub-15 3×3: 12.27 at Hangzhou Open 2024.
- 21 Sep 2024First sub-20 3×3: 15.28 at Xuzhou Autumn 2024.
- 2 Mar 2024First competition: Hangzhou Spring 2024. A 28.82 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Yancheng Spring Open 2026 · 29 Mar 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Beijing Winter 2026 · 10 Jan 2026
- Hangzhou Winter 2025 · 29 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Taizhou Open 2025 · 26 Jul 2025
- Zhuhai Open 2025 · 15 Jun 2025
- Yancheng Open 2025 · 7 Jun 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Linhai Newcomers 2025 · 15 Mar 2025
- Luoyang Spring 2025 · 1 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Yancheng Open 2024 · 21 Dec 2024
- Hangzhou Open 2024 · 15 Dec 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Xuzhou Autumn 2024 · 21 Sep 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Kunshan Open 2024 · 14 Apr 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Hangzhou Spring 2024 · 2 Mar 2024
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 her.
- Qixian Cao (曹岂娴) — met in 19 rounds, never finished ahead
- Xuanyi Geng (耿暄一) — met in 19 rounds, never finished ahead
- Yiheng Wang (王艺衡) — met in 17 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 1.07 away.
- A sub-12 Pyraminx single — 87,967 people have one; it is 0.26 away.
Targets move as she improves.