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Haoqian Chen (陈昊谦)

3×3 · top 8.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2025 · 2025CHEN89

Haoqian Chen (陈昊谦) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.31, set at Guangzhou GraDUAL 3x3 III 2026, puts him in the top 8.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,288th in China. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since June 2025, he has put 48 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 43.29 in June 2025 to 10.31, a 76% improvement. Haoqian has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.4% of 284,439 all-time
10.31
signature single · Guangzhou GraDUAL 3x3 III 2026
48
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×310.3112.35
top 8.4%3,288 / 28,153
2×28.3110.27
top 69.8%11,460 / 15,796
Pyraminx19.7928.78
top 92.6%9,196 / 10,224

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

Zhuhai Open 2025: 43.29Guangzhou Small Cubes 2025: 27.33Zhuhai Pi Day 2026: 13.54Guangzhou GraDUAL 3x3 II 2026: 12.67Guangzhou GraDUAL 3x3 III 2026: 10.3110.3143.2915 Jun 20252 Sep 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.31 away.
  • A sub-8 2×2 single — 126,624 people have one; it is 0.31 away.

Targets move as he improves.