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Elvin Xu

3×3 · top 1.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2019 · 2019XUEL02

Elvin Xu has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.23, set at Pop Off Princeton 2025, puts him in the top 1.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 980th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 63 competitions since November 2019, he has put 1,643 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.65 in November 2019 to 7.23, a 67% improvement. Elvin has entered 63 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.6% of 284,439 all-time
7.23
signature single · Pop Off Princeton 2025
1,643
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.239.42
top 1.6%980 / 59,724
4×429.6336.15
top 2.6%429 / 19,072
2×21.673.43
top 2.9%1,136 / 40,951
5×554.311:00.78
top 3.1%259 / 9,401
6×61:43.671:55.10
top 5.1%174 / 4,196
3×3 one-handed13.5918.94
top 5.4%761 / 15,683
7×72:41.302:53.77
top 5.8%154 / 3,184
Skewb3.448.93
top 7.3%1,139 / 18,907
Megaminx59.991:11.85
top 10.0%688 / 7,841
3×3 Fewest Moves29 moves33.67
top 12.2%280 / 2,040
3×3 blindfolded1:03.811:24.60
top 14.3%277 / 2,092
Clock8.9810.12
top 19.9%1,522 / 8,927
Pyraminx6.169.79
top 21.2%5,687 / 28,708
4×4 blindfolded4:58.81—
top 21.7%86 / 440
3×3 Multi-Blind4 of 5 cubes · 20:00—
top 51.9%397 / 731
Square-147.12—
early days — 2 solves4,828 / 6,743

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

No Place For DNF Fall 2019: 21.65Liberty Science Center Open 2019: 16.38Scranton Scramble 2020: 15.45Skewbadelphia Winter 2020: 12.75ROC the Cube 2022: 10.76Pennsylvania Championship 2022: 10.92Owings Mills Summer 2022: 10.61Sharon Forks Showdown 2022: 10.42Cuber Jackets Fall 2022: 9.87Carolina Clock 'Stravaganza 2022: 9.64GA Cubers Mashed Potatoes 2022: 9.89New York New Year 2023: 9.90Niner Nation Open 2023: 8.77Kendeda Kubing B 2023: 8.92CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2023: 8.89AlphaCubing B 2023: 8.90North Jersey Speedsolving A 2023: 7.84Eretum 3.5: Easy Peasy Edition 2023: 9.65CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 9.34Square-Fun in Bloomsburg 2023: 8.38Empire State Fall Favorites 2023: 9.45Princeton Fall 2023: 7.69Penn Cube Day Spring 2024: 9.08South Jersey Speedsolving 2024: 8.70Newark Academy Spring 2024: 10.90Puzzles in Pottsville 2024: 8.53Wakefield MA Summer 2024: 8.55Westport Summer 2024: 7.93Hudson Valley Summer 2024: 8.82High Five Bloomsburg 2024: 10.15Christmas City Cubing PA 2024: 8.80Cumberland County Fall 2024: 8.05Penn Cube Day Fall 2024: 8.33Lake George 2024: 9.59Pop Off Princeton 2025: 7.23Rutgers Winter 2025: 9.63PBs in Palisades Winter 2025: 8.66Liberty Science Center Open A 2025: 9.77Great Peconic Bay 2025: 8.26Penn Cube Day Spring 2025: 8.33NYU Spring 2025: 9.24King of Prussia Spring 2025: 7.73Saratoga Spring-s 2025: 9.12Summit Summer 2025: 9.35Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 8.99Brookhaven Summer 2025: 8.97Liberty Science Center Fall B 2025: 8.38Manchester October 2025: 8.67Corning Winter 2026: 7.737.2321.659 Nov 201914 Feb 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.

  • Evan Liu — met in 157 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
  • Shaun Mack — met in 135 rounds, finished ahead 9 times
  • Carson Widjaja — met in 127 rounds, finished ahead 13 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.23 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 4.63 away.

Targets move as he improves.