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Jieming Xu

3×3 · top 2.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2022 · 2022XUJI01

Jieming Xu has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.72, set at Cubing on Par B 2023, puts him in the top 2.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,357th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since September 2022, he has put 357 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 74% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.51 in September 2022 to 7.72, a 27% improvement. Jieming has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.3% of 284,439 all-time
7.72
signature single · Cubing on Par B 2023
357
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 74% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.728.78
top 2.3%1,357 / 59,724
2×21.993.44
top 4.7%1,867 / 40,951
4×442.3750.17
top 14.9%2,243 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed19.2824.77
top 18.6%2,387 / 15,683
Pyraminx5.878.74
top 19.0%5,072 / 28,708

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

SnoCo NxN 2022: 10.51New Kent On The Block 2022: 12.23SnoCo Veteran's Weekend B 2022: 11.98Big Cubes in Bothell 2022: 10.43Lynnwood Winter 2023: 8.26Bothell Spring Open 2023: 9.85Cubing on Par B 2023: 7.72Welcome to Olympia 2023: 8.17Vancouver Pride 2023: 8.84Bothell Summer 2023: 9.86Lucky Lynnwood 2023: 9.07Lakewood Fall 2023: 9.03SnoCo Veterans Day Weekend 2023: 8.23CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2024: 8.21Lakewood Fall 2024: 8.787.7212.2324 Sep 202216 Nov 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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.99 away.

Targets move as he improves.