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Chongkui Chen (陈崇魁)

7×7 · top 0.12% of 14,226 all-time · competing since December 2023 · 2023CHEC12

Chongkui Chen (陈崇魁) has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 7×7: a personal-best single of 1:44.68, set at Guangzhou Big Cubes 2025, puts him in the top 0.12% of the 14,226 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3rd in China. Until July 2019, no official 7×7 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since December 2023, he has put 293 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 5×5 best has come down from 51.32 in December 2023 to 41.86, an 18% improvement. Chongkui has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

7×7
best event — top 0.12% of 14,226 all-time
1:44.68
signature single · Guangzhou Big Cubes 2025
293
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
7×71:44.681:55.47
top 0.12%3 / 1,261
5×541.8649.20
top 0.31%14 / 2,816
6×61:19.791:22.91
top 0.55%8 / 1,349
3×36.437.65
top 0.79%300 / 28,153
4×426.0929.63
top 1.0%97 / 5,926
3×3 one-handed10.9312.63
top 1.8%149 / 5,922

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

Xi'an Open 2023: 51.32Xi'an Open 2024: 51.07Guangzhou Big Cubes 2024: 47.83Chengdu Spring Open 2025: 45.25Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2025: 44.96Beijing University Cube League 2025: 41.86Guangzhou Big Cubes 2025: 47.05Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2026: 45.8341.8651.3224 Dec 20234 Apr 2026

Best single per competition, 5×5. 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-40 5×5 single — 68 people have one; it is 1.86 away.
  • A sub-1:00 6×6 single — 2 people have one; it is 19.79 away.

Targets move as he improves.