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Canxing Gao

3×3 · top 4.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2025 · 2025GAOC01

Canxing Gao has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.77, set at GAN Tarlac Speedcubing Open 2026, puts him in the top 4.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,651st in China. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since March 2025, he has put 252 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 80% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.38 in March 2025 to 8.77, a 43% improvement. Canxing has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.3% of 284,439 all-time
8.77
signature single · GAN Tarlac Speedcubing Open 2026
252
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 80% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×38.7710.15
top 4.3%1,651 / 28,153
Pyraminx4.086.54
top 8.1%961 / 10,224
3×3 one-handed17.4123.80
top 13.6%1,349 / 5,922
2×23.344.21
top 18.3%2,966 / 15,796
Clock9.0910.26
top 20.4%443 / 1,843
Skewb6.988.64
top 33.5%2,047 / 5,004
4×41:00.161:04.71
top 36.6%3,600 / 5,926

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

Baguio Speedcubing Open 2025: 15.38Novaliches Speedcubing Open 2025: 17.59Cabalen Cubing Fest 2025: 12.90Philippine Championship 2025: 12.35Elyu Cube Clash II 2025: 12.25Pangasinan Puzzle Party 2025: 11.74Just Cube and Go Pangasinan 2025: 9.94Elyu Cube Clash III 2026: 8.78GAN Tarlac Speedcubing Open 2026: 8.778.7717.5929 Mar 202525 Jul 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.77 away.
  • A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.08 away.

Targets move as he improves.