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Hsing-Kai Hsiung (熊星凱)

2×2 · top 5.0% of 186,767 all-time · competing since June 2024 · 2024HSIU01

Hsing-Kai Hsiung (熊星凱) has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.04, set at Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2024, puts him in the top 5.0% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 131st in Chinese Taipei. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 24 competitions since June 2024, he has put 463 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 69% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.90 in August 2024 to 10.09, a 27% improvement. He has entered 24 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 5.0% of 186,767 all-time
2.04
signature single · Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2024
463
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 69% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
2×22.043.25
top 5.0%131 / 1,669
3×310.0911.56
top 7.7%457 / 4,213
Pyraminx4.289.03
top 9.1%142 / 1,016
Clock6.768.16
top 10.1%42 / 366
4×440.4349.02
top 12.6%282 / 1,078
3×3 one-handed20.0325.60
top 20.5%263 / 802
5×51:35.91—
top 32.2%349 / 639
Square-124.5842.34
top 38.3%156 / 323
Skewb8.6915.13
top 46.3%418 / 699
Megaminx2:03.54—
early days — 2 solves234 / 362
3×3 Fewest Moves47 moves—
early days — 2 solves154 / 204

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

Hsinchu Summer Open 2024: 13.90Shin Kong Cube Open - New Taipei 2024: 12.38Shin Kong Cube Open - Kaohsiung 2024: 11.26Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2024: 11.44Taiwan Championship 2024: 13.60Pingtung Winter Open 2025: 13.15BQHS Spring Open 2025: 10.30Zhongshan Open 2025: 10.96Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2025: 10.09Taipei Summer Open 2025: 12.14Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2025: 11.75Hsinchu Summer Open 2025: 11.59Shin Kong Cube Open - New Taipei 2025: 10.93Shin Kong Cube Open - Taichung 2025: 11.40Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2025: 11.19Shin Kong Cube Open - Kaohsiung 2025: 11.30Taiwan Championship 2025: 11.90Zhongshan Open 2026: 12.97Taipei Cube Open 2026: 12.88Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2026: 12.13Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2026: 12.5610.0913.9017 Aug 202425 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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.04 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.09 away.

Targets move as he improves.