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Chengxiang Cui (崔程翔)

3×3 · top 1.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2015 · 2015CUIC01

Chengxiang Cui (崔程翔) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.45, set at Hangzhou Winter 2025, puts him in the top 1.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 675th in China. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since July 2015, he has put 1,096 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.85 in July 2015 to 7.45, a 69% improvement. Chengxiang has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.9% of 284,439 all-time
7.45
signature single · Hangzhou Winter 2025
1,096
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×37.459.26
top 1.9%675 / 28,153
2×21.512.76
top 2.2%255 / 15,796
Pyraminx2.504.36
top 2.2%261 / 10,224
3×3 one-handed12.4315.04
top 3.6%310 / 5,922
Skewb3.004.81
top 5.0%273 / 5,004
Megaminx53.931:04.97
top 6.9%164 / 1,678
4×435.5138.91
top 7.2%725 / 5,926
5×51:04.701:13.98
top 8.2%391 / 2,816
Clock7.388.83
top 12.5%271 / 1,843
7×73:15.703:26.45
top 15.0%301 / 1,261
6×62:11.022:17.38
top 15.7%343 / 1,349
3×3 Fewest Moves33 moves44.00
top 23.4%244 / 1,058
Square-121.3629.58
top 31.0%527 / 1,362

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

Hefei Open 2015: 23.85Xining Summer Open 2016: 18.46Changshu Open 2017: 15.51Xuzhou Open 2018: 11.49Shenzhen Open 2018: 9.74China Championship 2018: 10.10Nanjing Autumn 2018: 10.17Jieyang Winter 2019: 9.45Hefei Spring 2019: 9.88Yancheng Spring 2019: 8.70Wuhan Open 2019: 9.86Hefei Summer 2019: 8.49China Championship 2019: 10.08Shandong Open 2019: 9.28Lanzhou Autumn 2019: 8.52Jieyang Winter 2020: 9.32Kunshan Morning 2021: 9.91Hangzhou Winter 2025: 7.457.4523.8517 Jul 201529 Nov 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.45 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.51 away.

Targets move as he improves.