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Louis Tan Kai Jie

3×3 one-handed · top 0.63% of 73,695 all-time · competing since May 2023 · 2023JIEL02

Louis Tan Kai Jie has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 9.26, set at Kedah Cube Open 2025, puts him in the top 0.63% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5th in Malaysia. Until November 2013, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since May 2023, he has put 612 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 14 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.30 in May 2023 to 6.54, a 54% improvement. Louis has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.63% of 73,695 all-time
9.26
signature single · Kedah Cube Open 2025
612
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 standingMalaysia
3×3 one-handed9.2612.15
top 0.63%5 / 1,327
4×425.3129.85
top 0.78%13 / 1,219
3×36.547.36
top 0.89%38 / 3,773
5×550.5556.93
top 1.9%18 / 617
Megaminx46.3652.41
top 3.6%26 / 518
2×21.824.68
top 3.7%85 / 2,541
6×61:53.142:01.42
top 8.4%31 / 232
7×73:02.873:14.34
top 11.4%33 / 188
Pyraminx5.4112.45
top 15.8%307 / 1,723
Clock28.0630.75
top 81.9%340 / 406

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

STEM Cube Open Penang 2023: 14.30Kedah Cube Open 2023: 10.88Penang Cube Masters 2023: 10.68USM Penang Cube 2024: 10.08UTP Cube Open 2024: 8.25Kedah Cube Open 2024: 7.81Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2024: 7.87Penang Cube Masters 2024: 7.23USM Penang Cube 2025: 7.21One Shamelin Cube Open 2025: 7.95Penang Mini Cube 2025: 7.61Kedah Cube Open 2025: 7.50Malaysia Cube Championship 2025: 6.54Penang Cube Masters 2025: 7.83Gelugor Cube Carnival 2025: 6.84USM Penang Cube 2026: 7.686.5414.3028 May 202311 Apr 2026

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 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 1.26 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 0.31 away.

Targets move as he improves.