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Kevin Li

3×3 · top 2.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2014 · 2014LIKE01

Kevin Li has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.51, set at Arizona Autumn 2024, puts him in the top 2.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,185th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since November 2014, he has put 470 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 18% around a typical one; 97% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.50 in November 2014 to 7.51, a 67% improvement. Kevin has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.0% of 284,439 all-time
7.51
signature single · Arizona Autumn 2024
470
official solves on the record
18%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 97% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.5110.48
top 2.0%1,185 / 59,724
Pyraminx2.856.43
top 3.1%840 / 28,708
Skewb2.764.80
top 3.9%606 / 18,907
2×22.243.68
top 6.5%2,588 / 40,951
Megaminx1:13.061:29.98
top 17.5%1,185 / 7,841
5×51:18.681:34.25
top 18.1%1,391 / 9,401
7×73:28.153:42.84
top 19.1%539 / 3,184
3×3 one-handed19.6725.11
top 19.6%2,521 / 15,683
4×446.0650.43
top 19.6%2,984 / 19,072
6×62:32.402:43.43
top 26.8%942 / 4,196
Clock10.6114.01
top 28.1%2,169 / 8,927
Square-123.3331.05
top 35.5%2,299 / 6,743
3×3 Fewest Moves44 moves53.00
top 62.5%1,310 / 2,040

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

BASC 4: Día de los Cubos 2014: 22.50BASC 5: Everything But 2x2 2015: 16.48Berkeley Spring 2015: 14.15BASC 7 2015: 14.56AZCubing Winter 2022: 12.47Arizona Favorites 2024: 10.71Arizona Championship 2024: 10.43Arizona Autumn 2024: 7.51Arizona Mini 2024: 8.09Prescott Winter 2025: 10.11Megaminx Madness AZ 2025: 10.73Cubing at the Peak AZ 2025: 9.45Arizona Championship 2025: 8.33Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 10.32Bay Area Speedcubin' 68 - Belmont 2025: 9.597.5122.502 Nov 201413 Dec 2025

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 1.51 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.85 away.

Targets move as he improves.