People · China
Junliang Li (李俊良)
3×3 · top 1.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2018 · 2018LIJU06
Junliang Li (李俊良) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.04, set at Beijing Summer 2025, puts him in the top 1.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 484th in China. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 14 competitions since November 2018, he has put 550 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 61% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 2×2 best has come down from 3.59 in November 2018 to 1.42, a 60% improvement. Junliang has entered 14 competitions, more competitions than 95% 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 | 7.04 | 8.99 | top 1.4% | 484 / 28,153 | |
| Pyraminx | 2.15 | 3.40 | top 1.4% | 151 / 10,224 | |
| 2×2 | 1.42 | 1.73 | top 1.8% | 210 / 15,796 | |
| Clock | 3.80 | 5.58 | top 2.0% | 28 / 1,843 | |
| 4×4 | 31.40 | 35.73 | top 3.7% | 366 / 5,926 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 15.26 | 18.90 | top 8.7% | 826 / 5,922 | |
| 5×5 | 1:07.04 | 1:11.99 | top 9.7% | 468 / 2,816 | |
| 6×6 | 2:09.75 | 2:33.03 | early days — 3 solves | 332 / 1,349 | |
| Skewb | 5.09 | 6.18 | top 18.8% | 1,171 / 5,004 | |
| 7×7 | 5:44.00 | — | early days — 1 solve | 1,047 / 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
Best single per competition, 2×2. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 17 May 2025Four personal bests in one day at Beijing Summer 2025.
- 8 Feb 2025Five personal bests in one day at Chengdu Spring Open 2025.
- 3 Jan 2021Five personal bests in one day at Chengdu New Year Morning 2021.
- 9 Nov 2019Three personal bests in one day at Chengdu Winter 2019.
- 24 Aug 2019Four personal bests in one day at Xi'an 10th Anniversary 2019.
- 26 Jul 2019First sub-10 3×3: 9.65 at China Championship 2019.
Competitions
- Beijing Summer 2025 · 17 May 2025 — 4 personal bests set
- Chengdu Spring Open 2025 · 8 Feb 2025 — 5 personal bests set
- Hangzhou Open 2024 · 15 Dec 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Chengdu Summer 2024 · 20 Jul 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2024 · 5 Apr 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Hangzhou Spring 2024 · 2 Mar 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Chongqing Open 2023 · 18 Nov 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Chengdu Flash Cube Open 2023 · 15 Oct 2023
- Chengdu New Year Morning 2021 · 3 Jan 2021 — 5 personal bests set
- Chengdu Winter 2019 · 9 Nov 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- Xi'an 10th Anniversary 2019 · 24 Aug 2019 — 4 personal bests set
- China Championship 2019 · 26 Jul 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- Chengdu Open 2019 · 1 May 2019 — 4 personal bests set
- Chengdu Winter Open 2018 · 24 Nov 2018 — 2 personal bests 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.
- Jiazhou Li (李佳洲) — met in 95 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
- Xinyu Li (李欣宇) — met in 47 rounds, finished ahead 25 times
- Kaiyang Gao (高凯阳) — met in 45 rounds, finished ahead 23 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.04 away.
- A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.15 away.
Targets move as he improves.