People · United States
Kai Liotta
3×3 · top 7.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2024 · 2024LIOT01
Kai Liotta has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.06, set at Oregon Championship 2025, puts him in the top 7.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,193rd in the United States. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since September 2024, he has put 46 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 3 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.11 in September 2024 to 10.06, a 29% improvement. Kai has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 10.06 | 12.76 | top 7.6% | 4,193 / 59,724 | |
| 2×2 | 3.82 | 5.44 | top 24.2% | 9,495 / 40,951 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 31.54 | 38.56 | top 50.2% | 6,915 / 15,683 |
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
- 13 Sep 2024First competition: Oregon Championship 2024. A 14.11 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Oregon Championship 2025 · 5 Sep 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Worlds Warmup Hillsboro 2025 · 26 Apr 2025
- Hillsboro Winter 2025 · 11 Jan 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Oregon Championship 2024 · 13 Sep 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.
- Tripp Peters — met in 10 rounds, finished ahead once
- Abhay Cheemalapati — met in 10 rounds, finished ahead once
- Ronan Hobbs — met in 10 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.06 away.
- A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.82 away.
Targets move as he improves.