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Goodwin Liu

3×3 · top 60.0% of 288,433 all-time · competing since January 2024 · 2024LIUG01

Goodwin Liu has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 28.53, set at Hawaiian Island Tour - Hilo 2025, puts him in the top 60.0% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 36,175th in the United States. Across 38 competitions since January 2024, he has put 182 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 18% around a typical one; 98% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 38.35 in January 2024 to 28.53, a 26% improvement. Goodwin has entered 38 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 60.0% of 288,433 all-time
28.53
signature single · Hawaiian Island Tour - Hilo 2025
182
official solves on the record
18%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 98% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×328.5336.74
top 60.0%36,175 / 60,666
3×3 blindfolded3:52.00—
top 66.2%1,396 / 2,128
2×29.2913.82
top 74.9%31,537 / 41,674
3×3 Multi-Blind3 of 4 cubes · 36:27—
top 77.9%589 / 740

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

SacCubing XVI 2024: 38.35Berkeley Winter 2024: 40.24Bay Area Speedcubin' 58 - Berkeley 2024: 40.87Nebraska Championship 2024: 39.62Berkeley Spring 2024: 35.34Bay Area Speedcubin' 61 - San Jose 2024: 42.71SacCubing XVII 2024: 38.08CubingUSA Western Championship 2024: 31.12La La Land 2024: 42.99Cool Down Berkeley 2024: 35.87Berkeley November Weekday Tricubealon 2024: 37.19Berkeley December Weekday Tricubealon 2024: 40.92Mississippi Championship 2025: 35.66Rock-Cube-Lin Qualifier 2025: 40.12Hawaiian Island Tour - Kona 2025: 39.48Hawaiian Island Tour - Waimea 2025: 33.87Hawaiian Island Tour - Hilo 2025: 28.53Cool Down Berkeley 2025: 43.51Super Duper San Diego 2026: 35.86Berkeley January Weekday 2026: 37.40Berkeley February Weekday 2026: 35.82Nebraska Championship 2026: 32.32Berkeley Spring 2026: 41.00GAN Southern Championship 2026: 32.1128.5343.5120 Jan 202411 Jun 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-25 3×3 single — 151,957 people have one; it is 3.53 away.
  • A sub-3:00 3×3 blindfolded single — 6,463 people have one; it is 52.00 away.

Targets move as he improves.