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Ching-Cheng Hsieh (謝京城)

4×4 · top 2.2% of 83,917 all-time · competing since March 2013 · 2013HSIE01

Ching-Cheng Hsieh (謝京城) has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 28.86, set at Pingtung Winter Open 2025, puts him in the top 2.2% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 61st in Chinese Taipei. Until April 2012, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 46 competitions since March 2013, he has put 1,007 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 74% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.50 in March 2013 to 8.28, a 55% improvement. He has entered 46 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 2.2% of 83,917 all-time
28.86
signature single · Pingtung Winter Open 2025
1,007
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 74% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
4×428.8634.14
top 2.2%61 / 1,078
3×38.2810.58
top 3.3%185 / 4,213
5×51:00.301:07.15
top 5.7%93 / 639
2×22.804.95
top 12.0%328 / 1,669
6×62:03.792:17.13
top 12.6%73 / 292
7×74:00.614:15.75
top 31.0%132 / 252
Pyraminx8.9616.15
top 44.4%577 / 1,016
Clock17.9620.30
top 58.6%256 / 366
Skewb10.6917.66
top 59.1%501 / 699

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 Cube for kid Day 2013: 18.50Taiwan Summer Open 2013: 15.26Kaohsiung Open 2013: 12.22Kaohsiung Winter Open 2014: 13.70Maru Cube for Kids Day 2014: 14.05Kaohsiung Summer Open 2014: 12.73Taiwan Summer Open 2014: 13.43Kaohsiung Open 2014: 11.71Kaohsiung Winter Open 2015: 11.66All is Well 2015: 12.62Maru Cube for Kids Day 2015: 12.33Show Off Quickness 2015: 12.53Taiwan Cubing League - Taipei 2015: 11.45Taiwan Open 2015: 12.15All is Well 2016: 10.92Maru Cube Day 2016: 10.28Kaohsiung Open 2016: 11.18Kaohsiung Winter Open 2016: 11.44Maru X 2018: 12.05Kaohsiung Autumn Open 2018: 11.12Kaohsiung Autumn Open 2019: 10.84Zhuyuangang Open 2020: 8.88Pingtung Summer Open 2022: 10.49Taiwan Championship 2022: 11.18Shin Kong Cube Open 2023: 12.51Taiwan Championship 2023: 9.69Kaohsiung Winter Open 2024: 8.79Taichung Open 2024: 10.93Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2024: 10.12Shin Kong Cube Open - Taichung 2024: 11.01Shin Kong Cube Open - Kaohsiung 2024: 9.95Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2024: 8.28Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2024: 9.22Taiwan Championship 2024: 9.43Pingtung Winter Open 2025: 9.43Taipei Summer Open 2025: 8.82Shin Kong Cube Open - New Taipei 2025: 9.39Shin Kong Cube Open - Taichung 2025: 9.14Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2025: 10.29Shin Kong Cube Open - Kaohsiung 2025: 9.46Taiwan Championship 2025: 9.95Penghu Spring Cube Open 2026: 9.92BQHS Spring Open 2026: 9.61Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2026: 10.138.2818.5030 Mar 201318 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-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 3.86 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.28 away.

Targets move as he improves.