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Kailong Li (李开隆)

3×3 · top 0.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2008 · 2008LIKA01

Kailong Li (李开隆) has been competing for 18 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.55, set at Guangdong Open 2021, puts him in the top 0.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 332nd in China. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 81 competitions since July 2008, he has put 3,789 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 69% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.22 in July 2008 to 6.55, a 60% improvement. Kailong has entered 81 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.9% of 284,439 all-time
6.55
signature single · Guangdong Open 2021
3,789
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 69% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×36.557.90
top 0.9%332 / 28,153
4×426.2329.56
top 1.1%104 / 5,926
2×21.402.54
top 1.7%200 / 15,796
3×3 one-handed11.1215.02
top 2.0%165 / 5,922
5×552.2956.60
top 2.4%97 / 2,816
6×61:45.831:50.38
top 5.8%123 / 1,349
7×72:42.402:47.37
top 6.1%125 / 1,261
Pyraminx4.057.31
top 7.9%937 / 10,224
Megaminx1:05.971:09.99
top 13.3%378 / 1,678
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves—
top 30.0%322 / 1,058
Square-121.2230.24
top 30.7%521 / 1,362
Skewb6.9510.58
top 33.3%2,036 / 5,004

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

Hong Kong Open 2008: 16.22Guangdong Open 2008: 12.91Beijing Summer Open 2009: 11.63Shenzhen Summer Open 2009: 11.40Guangdong Open 2009: 10.47Hunan Open 2010: 10.56Guangdong Open 2010: 9.27Guangzhou Small Cubes 2010: 9.25One-to-eight Cubes Competition 2011: 9.84Shenzhen University 2011: 9.33Guangzhou Summer Vacation 2011: 9.43Hangzhou Open 2011: 9.38World Rubik's Cube Championship 2011: 7.78Guangzhou Winter 2011: 9.36Guangzhou SCAU 2012: 8.40Asian Championship 2012: 8.45Guangzhou CCSA Championship 2013: 7.84Shanghai Summer 2013: 9.11Guangdong Open 2013: 8.24Guangzhou Small Cubes 2014: 7.65Guangzhou Wushan Open 2014: 8.46Shantou Open 2014: 9.34Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2014: 8.23Guangdong Open 2014: 7.83Guangzhou New Year's Cube Day 2015: 9.15Cube of Prime Numbers 2015: 8.93Guangzhou SYSU Open 2015: 8.30Yangjiang Open 2015: 8.43Huizhou Open 2015: 8.46Shantou Open 2015: 8.64Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2015: 7.08China Championship 2015: 7.85Shenzhen New Year 2016: 7.47Dongguan Open 2016: 7.54Guangzhou Rubik's Cube Days 2016: 8.08Huizhou Open 2016: 7.78One Night in Beijing 2016: 8.21Hefei Open 2016: 8.29Shantou Open 2016: 8.08Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2016: 6.83Yangzhou Open 2016: 8.06Asian Championship 2016: 7.65Zhenjiang Open 2016: 7.90Nanchang Winter 2016: 7.91Shenzhen New Year 2017: 8.20Hong Kong Cube Day 2017: 7.01GDSY Open 2017: 7.93Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2017: 8.04Guangzhou SCUT 2017: 7.13Nanjing Spring 2017: 7.16Shanghai Love In ECNU 2017: 7.65Zhuhai Open 2017: 8.34China Championship 2017: 8.24China's 10th Anniversary Championship 2017: 7.55Shenzhen Open 2017: 6.96Shanghai Winter 2018: 8.11Shanghai Love in ECNU 2018: 6.98Guilin Open 2018: 7.51Huizhou Open 2018: 8.21Shenzhen Open 2018: 7.78Shantou Open 2018: 7.52Maoming Open 2018: 7.49China Championship 2019: 7.50Guangzhou Good Afternoon 2020: 7.08Guangzhou Panyu Afternoon 2021: 7.05Shenzhen Nanshan Afternoon 2021: 6.84Guangdong Open 2021: 6.55Guilin Open 2021: 7.226.5516.2227 Jul 200816 May 2021

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 0.55 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 1.23 away.

Targets move as he improves.