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Ethan Ruoqing Chen (陈若轻)

3×3 · top 2.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024CHEN33

Ethan Ruoqing Chen (陈若轻) has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.03, set at Milford Winter Warm Up 2025, puts him in the top 2.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,026th in China. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since March 2024, he has put 574 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 89% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 35.25 in March 2024 to 8.03, a 77% improvement. Ethan has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.8% of 284,439 all-time
8.03
signature single · Milford Winter Warm Up 2025
574
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 89% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×38.0310.50
top 2.8%1,026 / 28,153
2×21.792.74
top 3.5%468 / 15,796
3×3 Fewest Moves28 moves—
top 9.9%98 / 1,058
Pyraminx4.719.16
top 11.5%1,370 / 10,224
3×3 one-handed16.5719.93
top 11.5%1,129 / 5,922
Skewb4.429.21
top 13.9%839 / 5,004
Clock9.1911.19
top 21.0%457 / 1,843
4×448.8451.98
top 23.2%2,487 / 5,926
Megaminx1:25.621:48.82
top 25.3%783 / 1,678
Square-125.8133.51
top 40.9%700 / 1,362
5×52:01.152:20.09
top 49.9%2,094 / 2,816

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

Te Atatū Newcomers Open 2024: 35.25Beachside Auckland 2024: 26.12Auckland Matariki Open 2024: 22.26South Auckland Side Events 2024: 21.27Springing into Auckland 2024: 13.41Max Speed Milford 2024: 15.92Sqauckland 2025: 11.03Twisting in Titirangi 2025: 11.60Puzzling Papatoetoe 2025: 12.37Milford Winter Warm Up 2025: 8.03Coping in Auckland 2025: 9.702x2 in Tāmaki Makaurau 2025: 11.94Beachside Auckland 2025: 9.57New Zealand Cubing Decathlon 2025: 8.81Drury Summer 2025: 8.37New Zealand Nationals 2025: 10.23Cubing East Auckland Newcomer Open 2026: 8.57Shenyang Cubing League 3x3 IV 2026: 9.838.0335.2516 Mar 20248 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.03 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.79 away.

Targets move as he improves.