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Doug Li

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 1.0% of 12,294 all-time · competing since August 2003 · 2003LIDO01

Doug Li has been competing for 23 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 20 moves, set at Washtenaw FMC 2 2025, puts him in the top 1.0% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 28th in the United States. Across 93 competitions since August 2003, he has put 1,677 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.36 in August 2003 to 14.85, a 27% improvement. Doug has entered 93 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 1.0% of 12,294 all-time
20 moves
signature single · Washtenaw FMC 2 2025
1,677
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 Fewest Moves20 moves22.67
top 1.0%28 / 2,040
Skewb4.7510.48
top 16.3%2,566 / 18,907
Pyraminx6.0010.87
top 20.0%5,359 / 28,708
3×314.8520.40
top 23.9%12,983 / 59,724
2×23.967.05
top 26.0%10,226 / 40,951
4×41:04.951:13.27
top 41.7%6,845 / 19,072
Megaminx1:59.432:10.56
top 45.3%3,331 / 7,841
5×51:55.022:08.08
top 46.0%3,801 / 9,401
6×63:31.523:38.75
top 55.2%2,086 / 4,196
3×3 one-handed35.5744.05
top 58.3%8,130 / 15,683
Clock19.0120.94
top 61.8%5,213 / 8,927
7×75:38.596:11.27
top 62.2%1,860 / 3,184
Square-145.451:30.39
top 71.6%4,699 / 6,743
3×3 blindfolded5:36.60—
early days — 3 solves1,733 / 2,092

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

World Rubik's Games Championship 2003: 20.36US Nationals 2004: 22.89Caltech Dallas Summer competition 2005: 20.21Rubik's World Championship 2005: 23.24Draughons Eastern competition 2006: 17.81US Nationals 2006: 20.81Rutgers Spring competition 2007: 21.54Caltech Summer competition 2007: 21.43Motor City Open 2009: 22.72Washtenaw Spring B 2023: 25.36Michigan Speedcubing Spring 2023: 20.96Michigan Mini 4 2023: 22.33Michigan Mini 5 2023: 18.33Washtenaw Qualifier 2023: 19.02Ohio State Summer Solving 2023: 24.71Michigan 2023: 19.97Flag City Summer 2023: 19.37CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 23.73Cubing 4 a Cure Farmington 2023: 18.66Washtenaw Slow Summer 2023: 19.35Rapidly Grand 2023: 19.45Washtenaw Fast 'n Late Fall 2023: 23.14CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2023: 19.85Michigan Mini 8 2023: 16.39Swoop in Again Oxford 2023: 18.51Michigan Mini 9 2023: 18.27Michigan Mini 10 2023: 19.22Michigan Mini 11 2023: 21.75Washtenaw Autumn 2023: 20.93Michigan Mini 12 2023: 20.82Solve 4 Justice Southfield 2024: 20.77Michigan Mini 13 2024: 21.95Washtenaw Winter 2024: 19.51Michigan Mini 15 2024: 18.25Washtenaw Newcomers 2024: 20.31Michigan Mini 17 2024: 19.68Michigan Mega Madness 2024: 17.21Solar Eclipse in Sycamore 2024: 20.05Washtenaw Spring 2024: 21.72Trojan Spring 2024: 18.80Washtenaw Qualifiers 2024: 16.58Michigan Mini 19 2024: 18.43Michigan Championship 2024: 20.49Michigan Mini 20 2024: 17.04Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 17.33Michigan Mini 21 2024: 19.46Grand Rapids Cubes 2024: 20.10Michigan Mini 22 2024: 20.88Washtenaw Summer 2024: 19.42Michigan Mini 23 2024: 18.40Washtenaw Fall 2024: 21.01Michigan Mini 24 2024: 19.72Washtenaw Mini 2 2024: 21.44Michigan Mini 25 2024: 18.35Washtenaw Mini 3 2024: 21.03Michigan Mini 26A 2024: 16.51Imagination Station B 2025: 18.53Washtenaw Winter 2025: 14.85Michigan Mini 28 2025: 18.78Bowling Green 2025: 19.56Michigan Mini 30 2025: 22.15Washtenaw Spring 2025: 18.08Warm Up Seattle 2025: 20.90Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 17.62CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2025: 21.58Washtenaw Slow Fall 2025: 19.39CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2026: 19.91Ohio State Summer Mini 2026: 22.8714.8525.3623 Aug 200326 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-4 Skewb single — 7,977 people have one; it is 0.75 away.
  • A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 1.00 away.

Targets move as he improves.