People · China
Heling Cheng (程鹤霝)
2×2 · top 6.7% of 189,179 all-time · competing since March 2025 · 2025CHEN25
Heling Cheng (程鹤霝) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.25, set at Hefei Open 2025, puts him in the top 6.7% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 957th in China. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since March 2025, he has put 77 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.83 in March 2025 to 10.32, a 20% improvement. Heling has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 2.25 | 3.43 | top 6.7% | 957 / 15,939 | |
| 3×3 | 10.32 | 11.95 | top 8.5% | 3,380 / 28,499 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.94 | 9.27 | top 19.6% | 2,261 / 10,269 | |
| Skewb | 5.49 | 7.23 | top 22.0% | 1,390 / 5,030 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 23.01 | 29.31 | top 28.9% | 2,854 / 5,994 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 30 Mar 2025Three personal bests in one day at Xuzhou Newcomers 2025.
- 1 Mar 2025First competition: Luoyang Spring 2025. A 13.62 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Hefei Cubing League 3x3 IV 2026 · 1 Jul 2026
- Hefei Cubing League 3x3 III 2026 · 17 Jun 2026
- Hefei Open 2025 · 25 Oct 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Xuzhou Newcomers 2025 · 30 Mar 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Luoyang Spring 2025 · 1 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Yiming Zuo (左一鸣) — met in 13 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
- Xinyun Chen (陈新运) — met in 13 rounds, finished ahead once
- Kaixi Guo (郭铠希) — met in 13 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.25 away.
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,606 people have one; it is 0.32 away.
Targets move as he improves.