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Jialong Liu (刘嘉龙)

3×3 · top 2.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2013 · 2013LIUJ03

Jialong Liu (刘嘉龙) has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.72, set at Guangzhou Panyu Afternoon 2021, puts him in the top 2.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 836th in China. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since October 2013, he has put 498 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.01 in October 2013 to 7.72, a 55% improvement. Jialong has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.3% of 284,439 all-time
7.72
signature single · Guangzhou Panyu Afternoon 2021
498
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×37.728.75
top 2.3%836 / 28,153
4×433.3239.14
top 5.2%517 / 5,926
5×51:03.921:12.28
top 7.7%369 / 2,816
3×3 one-handed16.7521.85
top 12.0%1,175 / 5,922
2×22.944.07
top 13.6%2,105 / 15,796
6×62:11.482:24.63
top 16.0%350 / 1,349
7×73:45.943:52.29
top 25.6%515 / 1,261

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

Guangdong Open 2013: 17.01Guangzhou Small Cubes 2014: 14.09Guangzhou Cube Splashing Day 2014: 9.79Huizhou Open 2014: 10.06Guangdong Open 2014: 10.38Back To Cubing Hong Kong 2015: 9.24Shenzhen Open 2015: 8.85Hong Kong Summer Cube Day 2015: 8.50China Championship 2015: 9.73Shenzhen New Year 2016: 8.56Shantou Open 2017: 9.59Dongguan Open 2018: 8.21Guangdong Open 2018: 8.76Huizhou Open 2018: 8.55Shenzhen Open 2018: 8.61GDSY Open 2019: 8.70Shenzhen Cubing 10th Anniversary 2019: 8.47Guangzhou Panyu Afternoon 2021: 7.72Shenzhen Nanshan Open 2024: 7.967.7217.011 Oct 201322 Jun 2024

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.72 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 3.32 away.

Targets move as he improves.