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Chen-Kuang Chiu (邱晨光)

3×3 · top 9.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2018 · 2018CHIU02

Chen-Kuang Chiu (邱晨光) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.70, set at Welcome Back Kaohsiung 2021, puts him in the top 9.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 576th in Chinese Taipei. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since June 2018, he has put 225 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 62% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.25 in June 2018 to 10.70, a 44% improvement. He has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.6% of 284,439 all-time
10.70
signature single · Welcome Back Kaohsiung 2021
225
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 62% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
3×310.7013.66
top 9.6%576 / 4,213
2×23.967.53
top 26.0%627 / 1,669
4×41:15.32
top 51.9%774 / 1,078
5×52:06.58
top 53.4%482 / 639
6×63:57.43
top 64.5%234 / 292
7×76:09.77
early days — 2 solves211 / 252
Pyraminx12.8618.11
top 72.2%817 / 1,016
3×3 one-handed1:00.33
early days — 2 solves765 / 802
Square-11:02.58
early days — 2 solves292 / 323
Skewb20.6525.60
top 90.6%659 / 699
Clock1:09.72
early days — 1 solve361 / 366

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

Maru X 2018: 19.25WCA Asian Championship 2018: 16.33Kaohsiung Autumn Open 2018: 14.08Taipei Winter Open 2018: 12.56Taiwan Championship 2018: 14.34Taichung Cubing Open 2019: 13.22HCHS 10th Anniversary 2019: 13.56All is Well Tainan 2019: 12.84Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2019: 13.48Maru Cube Day 2019: 14.21Dream One Cube Open 2019: 14.30Taiwan Championship 2019: 12.52Welcome Back Kaohsiung 2021: 10.70Chiayi Open 2022: 13.42Maru Cube Day 2022: 11.97Taiwan Championship 2025: 14.5910.7019.2530 Jun 201819 Dec 2025

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 0.70 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.96 away.

Targets move as he improves.