People · China
Chuanda Xie (谢传达)
3×3 · top 1.7% of 288,433 all-time · competing since December 2015 · 2015XIEC01
Chuanda Xie (谢传达) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.30, set at Chongqing New Year 2025, puts him in the top 1.7% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 620th in China. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since December 2015, he has put 434 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 18% around a typical one; 97% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 27.84 in December 2015 to 7.30, a 74% improvement. Chuanda has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 7.30 | 10.23 | top 1.7% | 620 / 28,499 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 12.31 | 17.14 | top 3.5% | 312 / 5,994 | |
| 4×4 | 35.64 | 40.34 | top 7.4% | 771 / 5,999 | |
| 2×2 | 2.89 | 4.72 | top 13.1% | 2,061 / 15,939 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.95 | 7.91 | top 19.7% | 2,276 / 10,269 | |
| 5×5 | 1:21.69 | 1:29.97 | top 20.6% | 997 / 2,857 | |
| Skewb | 5.79 | 9.88 | top 24.2% | 1,512 / 5,030 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 26 May 2024Three personal bests in one day at Guiyang Open 2024.
- 6 Oct 2018First sub-10 3×3: 8.93 at Yunnan Open 2018.
- 7 Oct 2017Six personal bests in one day at Yunnan Open 2017.
- 29 Apr 2017First sub-20 3×3: 13.32 at Chengdu Open 2017.
- 29 Apr 2017First sub-15 3×3: 13.32 at Chengdu Open 2017.
- 29 Apr 2017Three personal bests in one day at Chengdu Open 2017.
Competitions
- Yunnan Open 2025 · 22 Jun 2025
- Chongqing New Year 2025 · 12 Jan 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Guiyang Open 2024 · 26 May 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Chongqing Open 2023 · 18 Nov 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Yunnan Open 2019 · 6 Oct 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Baoji Open 2019 · 11 Aug 2019
- China Championship 2019 · 26 Jul 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Kunming Open 2019 · 26 May 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Shenzhen 3x3 Days 2019 · 2 Mar 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Yunnan Open 2018 · 6 Oct 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- Shenzhen Open 2017 · 3 Dec 2017 — 1 personal best set
- WHU Rubik's Cube Days 2017 · 25 Nov 2017
- Yunnan Open 2017 · 7 Oct 2017 — 6 personal bests set
- China's 10th Anniversary Championship 2017 · 1 Oct 2017 — 1 personal best set
- Chengdu Open 2017 · 29 Apr 2017 — 3 personal bests set
- Yunnan Open 2015 · 13 Dec 2015
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.
- Xinyan Liu (刘心妍) — met in 39 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
- Baiqiang Dong (董百强) — met in 34 rounds, finished ahead 7 times
- Fangrui Zeng (曾方锐) — met in 31 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.30 away.
- A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,239 people have one; it is 0.31 away.
Targets move as he improves.