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Kevin Liu

3×3 blindfolded · top 0.9% of 12,178 all-time · competing since March 2023 · 2023LIUK02

Kevin Liu has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3 blindfolded: a personal-best single of 18.55, set at CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Quiet Championship 2025, puts him in the top 0.9% of the 12,178 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 23rd in the United States. Until November 2016, no official 3×3 blindfolded solve in the world had been that fast. Across 41 competitions since March 2023, he has put 1,244 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 72% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.23 in May 2023 to 8.88, a 42% improvement. Kevin has entered 41 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 blindfolded
best event — top 0.9% of 12,178 all-time
18.55
signature single · CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Quiet Championship 2025
1,244
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 72% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 blindfolded18.5527.59
top 0.9%23 / 2,092
3×3 Multi-Blind31 of 33 cubes · 58:07—
top 1.7%16 / 731
Clock4.054.99
top 2.4%210 / 8,927
Pyraminx2.834.81
top 3.1%823 / 28,708
2×21.783.33
top 3.5%1,363 / 40,951
4×4 blindfolded2:18.133:09.04
top 4.3%19 / 440
3×38.8810.74
top 4.6%2,551 / 59,724
Skewb3.094.60
top 5.4%840 / 18,907
Megaminx51.9157.46
top 5.9%428 / 7,841
5×5 blindfolded5:56.809:05.19
top 6.7%16 / 218
4×436.3242.08
top 8.0%1,209 / 19,072
Square-112.8817.36
top 11.6%808 / 6,743
5×51:12.801:22.63
top 13.7%1,045 / 9,401
3×3 one-handed20.2925.94
top 21.3%2,721 / 15,683
6×62:22.762:31.57
top 21.9%773 / 4,196
7×74:02.764:22.73
top 31.7%886 / 3,184
3×3 Fewest Moves36 moves39.67
top 33.6%738 / 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

Middleboro Cubikon 2023: 15.23Pretzel Mania Summer 2023: 12.41Railroad City 2023: 11.44River Hill Fall 2023: 10.95Princeton Fall 2023: 11.36Manhattan Mini C 2023: 10.56GCU Winter 2024: 10.14Parsippany Mini PM 2024: 10.54NoVa Cube Winter 2024: 12.00Cubing in the Lion's Den 2024: 9.45Penn Cube Day Spring 2024: 10.61Empire State Side Events 2024: 10.77Ridgefield Spring 2024: 9.36North Jersey Speedsolving A 2024: 9.76Pennsylvania Championship 2024: 8.88Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 9.96East Berlin Favorites PA 2024: 9.85Christmas City Cubing PA 2024: 10.06Penn Cube Day Fall 2024: 9.89Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2024: 9.27Pop Off Princeton 2025: 12.01Penn Cube Day Spring 2025: 9.61Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 10.618.8815.236 May 20233 Jul 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.

  • Evan Liu — met in 171 rounds, finished ahead 55 times
  • Zach Ridall — met in 151 rounds, finished ahead 51 times
  • Nico Ozsvath — met in 131 rounds, finished ahead 41 times

Next targets

  • A sub-15 3×3 blindfolded single — 19 people have one; it is 3.55 away.
  • A sub-4 Clock single — 741 people have one; it is 0.05 away.

Targets move as he improves.