People · China
Ke Liu (刘科)
3×3 · top 5.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2025 · 2025LIUK04
Ke Liu (刘科) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.21, set at Yunnan Open 2025, puts him in the top 5.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,071st in China. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 1 competition since June 2025, he has put 20 official solves on the record across three events.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 9.21 | 10.68 | top 5.4% | 2,071 / 28,153 | |
| 4×4 | 38.98 | 41.10 | top 10.9% | 1,160 / 5,926 | |
| 2×2 | 4.21 | 6.68 | top 29.2% | 4,989 / 15,796 |
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 story so far
- 22 Jun 2025First competition: Yunnan Open 2025. A 12.01 3×3 single to start from.
- 22 Jun 2025First sub-10 3×3: 9.21 at Yunnan Open 2025.
Competitions
- Yunnan Open 2025 · 22 Jun 2025 — 1 personal best 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.
- Zhenyu Sun (孙振宇) — met in 4 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
- Yating Chen (陈亚婷) — met in 4 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
- Xiaoran Zheng (郑晓然) — met in 4 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.21 away.
- A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 8.98 away.
Targets move as he improves.