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Eric L. Jiang

3×3 · top 5.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2025 · 2025JIAN09

Eric L. Jiang has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.43, set at UMBC Fall 2025, puts him in the top 5.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,282nd in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 3 competitions since April 2025, he has put 54 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.05 in April 2025 to 9.43, a 28% improvement. Eric has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.9% of 284,439 all-time
9.43
signature single · UMBC Fall 2025
54
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.4311.11
top 5.9%3,282 / 59,724
4×439.5452.21
top 11.6%1,715 / 19,072
2×23.744.45
top 23.2%9,103 / 40,951

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

River Hill Spring 2025: 13.05UMBC Fall 2025: 9.43River Hill Fall 2025: 10.479.4313.0526 Apr 20256 Dec 2025

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.43 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 9.54 away.

Targets move as he improves.