People · China
Lukai Zou (邹路凯)
3×3 one-handed · top 2.4% of 73,695 all-time · competing since July 2024 · 2024ZOUL02
Lukai Zou (邹路凯) has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 11.53, set at Wuhu Open 2026, puts him in the top 2.4% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 206th in China. Until August 2010, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since July 2024, he has put 175 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 82% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.04 in July 2024 to 8.72, a 13% improvement. Lukai has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 one-handed | 11.53 | 13.49 | top 2.4% | 206 / 5,922 | |
| 3×3 | 8.72 | 10.39 | top 4.2% | 1,610 / 28,153 | |
| 2×2 | 3.42 | 4.56 | top 19.2% | 3,146 / 15,796 | |
| Skewb | 12.39 | 15.99 | top 67.9% | 3,592 / 5,004 | |
| Square-1 | 57.28 | — | early days — 1 solve | 1,261 / 1,362 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 21 Dec 2024First sub-10 3×3: 9.87 at Yancheng Open 2024.
- 28 Jul 2024First competition: Huizhou 10th Anniversary 2024. A 10.04 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Wuhu Open 2026 · 25 Jul 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Hangzhou Winter 2025 · 29 Nov 2025
- Hefei Open 2025 · 25 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Yancheng Open 2025 · 7 Jun 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Deqing Spring 2025 · 19 Apr 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Xuzhou Newcomers 2025 · 30 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Chengdu Spring Open 2025 · 8 Feb 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Yancheng Open 2024 · 21 Dec 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Deqing Big Cubes Summer 2024 · 24 Aug 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Huizhou 10th Anniversary 2024 · 28 Jul 2024
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.
- Ruimin Yan (颜瑞民) — met in 21 rounds, finished ahead 7 times
- Zhiyuan Ma (马之元) — met in 20 rounds, never finished ahead
- Yiheng Wang (王艺衡) — met in 20 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 1.53 away.
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.72 away.
Targets move as he improves.