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Lucas Hongye Jiang

3×3 · top 3.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2023 · 2023JIAN17

Lucas Hongye Jiang has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.23, set at Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026, puts him in the top 3.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,819th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since September 2023, he has put 428 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 31.06 in September 2023 to 8.23, a 74% improvement. Lucas has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.2% of 284,439 all-time
8.23
signature single · Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026
428
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.2310.37
top 3.2%1,819 / 59,724
2×22.503.98
top 8.9%3,497 / 40,951
Pyraminx5.688.41
top 17.6%4,676 / 28,708
Skewb5.357.49
top 20.9%3,333 / 18,907
4×448.7252.01
top 23.1%3,510 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed22.5024.61
top 27.4%3,535 / 15,683
Square-125.6028.68
top 40.4%2,623 / 6,743
5×51:51.042:12.82
top 43.3%3,545 / 9,401
Clock14.3217.17
top 45.2%3,647 / 8,927
Megaminx1:59.20—
top 45.2%3,323 / 7,841
6×65:00.92—
early days — 1 solve3,275 / 4,196

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

Pretzel Mania Summer 2023: 31.06Cumberland County Cubing 2023: 21.54Virginia Championship 2023: 13.77Penn Cube Day Spring 2024: 16.08It's About Time Bloomsburg 2024: 13.73Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 14.90PA-retzel Mania Winter 2025: 11.34New-Cumberland County 2025: 10.52King of Prussia Spring 2025: 11.60CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 8.40Penn Cube Day Spring 2026: 10.80Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 10.26Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026: 8.238.2331.062 Sep 202314 Aug 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.

  • Zach Ridall — met in 82 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
  • Leland Pak — met in 74 rounds, finished ahead 9 times
  • Will Deering — met in 72 rounds, finished ahead 23 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.23 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.50 away.

Targets move as he improves.