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Lijie Pan (潘理杰)

3×3 · top 4.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2017 · 2017PANL01

Lijie Pan (潘理杰) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.69, set at Ningbo Autumn 2025, puts him in the top 4.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,582nd in China. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since November 2017, he has put 263 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. That figure sets aside his 5 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.15 in November 2017 to 8.69, a 49% improvement. Lijie has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.2% of 284,439 all-time
8.69
signature single · Ningbo Autumn 2025
263
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 56% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×38.6910.33
top 4.2%1,582 / 28,153
2×22.723.67
top 11.1%1,714 / 15,796
4×442.1245.75
top 14.7%1,584 / 5,926
3×3 one-handed18.2621.37
top 15.8%1,554 / 5,922
Pyraminx6.047.74
top 20.3%2,315 / 10,224
5×51:22.151:34.59
top 20.8%994 / 2,816
7×74:19.794:38.64
top 37.6%726 / 1,261
6×63:45.34
early days — 2 solves1,086 / 1,349
3×3 Fewest Moves49 moves
early days — 1 solve892 / 1,058
Clock36.24
early days — 1 solve1,755 / 1,843

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

HDU Open 2017: 17.15Jinhua New Year's Day 2018: 15.35Hangzhou Spring 2018: 11.05Ningbo Open 2018: 13.93Wuhan Open 2019: 11.22Hangzhou Open 2019: 11.91Shaoxing Open 2019: 10.34Xuzhou Open 2024: 9.69Yunnan Open 2025: 9.16Ningbo Autumn 2025: 8.698.6917.1518 Nov 201713 Sep 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.69 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.72 away.

Targets move as he improves.