People · China
Huaitao Xu (徐怀韬)
3×3 · top 1.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024XUHU01
Huaitao Xu (徐怀韬) has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.79, set at Hangzhou Winter 2025, puts him in the top 1.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 404th in China. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since March 2024, he has put 60 official solves on the record across one event. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.43 in March 2024 to 6.79, a 28% improvement. Huaitao 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 6.79 | 8.01 | top 1.1% | 404 / 28,153 |
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 2024First competition: Huzhou Open 2024. A 9.43 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Hangzhou Open 2026 · 23 May 2026
- Deqing Small & Special 2026 · 26 Apr 2026
- Hangzhou Winter 2025 · 29 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Taizhou Open 2025 · 26 Jul 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Huzhou Open 2024 · 30 Mar 2024
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.
- Zhedong Wang (王哲栋) — met in 12 rounds, finished ahead 9 times
- Weikang Zheng (郑炜康) — met in 12 rounds, finished ahead 9 times
- Yang Li (李扬) — met in 12 rounds, finished ahead twice
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.79 away.
Targets move as he improves.