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Fiona Bao

Clock · top 0.047% of 32,048 all-time · competing since August 2022 · 2022BAOF01

Fiona Bao has been competing for 4 years. Her best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 1.98, set at RVA Spring 2026, puts her in the top 0.047% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5th in the United States. Until August 2024, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 52 competitions since August 2022, she has put 2,526 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 71% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 19.22 in August 2022 to 5.69, a 70% improvement. Fiona has entered 52 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 0.047% of 32,048 all-time
1.98
signature single · RVA Spring 2026
2,526
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 71% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Clock1.982.73
top 0.047%5 / 8,927
4×421.4926.23
top 0.14%24 / 19,072
6×61:14.831:22.63
top 0.27%15 / 4,196
3×35.696.96
top 0.33%219 / 59,724
5×544.4150.52
top 0.58%49 / 9,401
7×72:09.062:20.25
top 1.1%34 / 3,184
Square-16.9711.43
top 1.8%136 / 6,743
Skewb2.245.30
top 2.0%299 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed11.5313.80
top 2.4%389 / 15,683
Pyraminx2.613.71
top 2.5%659 / 28,708
Megaminx43.5050.34
top 2.6%187 / 7,841
2×21.622.25
top 2.7%1,049 / 40,951
3×3 blindfolded54.641:42.97
top 11.4%218 / 2,092
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves40.33
top 30.0%652 / 2,040
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 14:27—
early days — 1 solve518 / 731
4×4 blindfolded18:51.00—
early days — 1 solve372 / 440

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

Silver Spring Summer 2022: 19.22GA Cubers Turkey Gobblers 2022: 10.91Rocky Top 2022: 9.98Kendeda Kubing B 2023: 8.49Westminster Squanners Spring 2023: 9.80Concord Summer 2023: 7.79Staunton Speedsolving 2023: 7.58Cuber Jackets Fall 2023: 8.35North Carolina Championship 2023: 7.29Rocky Top 2023: 8.04Beat the Clock Westminster 2024: 8.14Upstate Palmetto Puzzles 2024: 7.41See Georgia: Lake Russell B 2024: 7.64Concord Summer 2024: 6.85CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2024: 7.06Bull City Summer NC 2024: 6.38GA Cuber Jackets Fall 2024: 7.28Appalachian Highlands TN 2024: 6.96NCSU Wolfpack 2024: 7.06Cubing with the Cougars WV 2025: 6.57Cubes in the Mountains WV 2025: 6.92Slow N Steady UMD Spring 2025: 6.06Front Royal Spring 2025: 6.48River Hill Spring 2025: 6.46American Dream NJ 2025: 7.93UMBC Spring 2025: 7.45TJHSST Spring 2025: 6.08Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.50More Cubing with the Cougars WV 2025: 6.75Virginia Championship 2025: 7.36CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 5.69Ephrata Fall 2025: 6.32UMBC Fall 2025: 6.40River Hill Fall 2025: 6.15Fredericksburg Winter AM 2026: 6.79UMBC Winter 2026: 6.62TJHSST Winter 2026: 6.75Williamsburg Open Spring 2026: 6.30Welcome to Washington D.C. 2026: 6.15Virginia Beach Spring 2026: 6.40Derwood Cubing Derby Spring 2026: 7.09RVA Spring 2026: 6.57Colonial Cube Clash VA 2026: 7.16Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 6.46Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026: 7.07Tartan Twist PA 2026: 5.855.6919.2213 Aug 202229 Aug 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-20 4×4 single — 42 people have one; it is 1.49 away.
  • A sub-1:00 6×6 single — 2 people have one; it is 14.83 away.

Targets move as she improves.