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Chengming Xie (谢丞铭)

3×3 · top 21.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2018 · 2018XIEC01

Chengming Xie (谢丞铭) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 14.03, set at Beijing Winter 2025, puts him in the top 21.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 8,135th in China. Across 12 competitions since June 2018, he has put 125 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 65% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 3 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:07.64 in June 2018 to 14.03, a 79% improvement. Chengming has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 21.1% of 284,439 all-time
14.03
signature single · Beijing Winter 2025
125
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 65% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×314.0314.82
top 21.1%8,135 / 28,153
Pyraminx6.6711.11
top 25.2%2,836 / 10,224
2×24.705.13
top 35.5%6,107 / 15,796

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

Shijiazhuang Open 2018: 1:07.64Beijing Summer 2018: 45.66China Championship 2018: 38.42Shijiazhuang Winter 2018: 31.98Anyang Open 2019: 22.66Zhengzhou Open 2019: 22.18Shijiazhuang Open 2019: 19.72Linfen Open 2019: 25.24China Championship 2019: 22.51Zibo Open 2019: 25.81Beijing Winter 2019: 21.69Beijing Winter 2025: 14.0314.031:07.6410 Jun 20184 Jan 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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 2.03 away.
  • A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 0.67 away.

Targets move as he improves.