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Maosheng Chen (陈茂盛)

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 0.45% of 12,294 all-time · competing since November 2012 · 2012CHEN44

Maosheng Chen (陈茂盛) has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 19 moves, set at Quanzhou FMC Summer 2026, puts him in the top 0.45% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 12th in China. Across 86 competitions since November 2012, he has put 1,011 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 72% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.53 in November 2012 to 12.46, a 45% improvement. Maosheng has entered 86 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 0.45% of 12,294 all-time
19 moves
signature single · Quanzhou FMC Summer 2026
1,011
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 72% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×3 Fewest Moves19 moves23.33
top 0.45%12 / 1,058
3×312.4616.96
top 15.5%6,086 / 28,153
2×23.146.07
top 15.9%2,538 / 15,796
4×454.791:06.69
top 30.5%3,102 / 5,926
3×3 one-handed23.8529.50
top 31.1%3,011 / 5,922
Pyraminx9.5013.33
top 49.0%5,176 / 10,224
Skewb11.0317.66
top 61.0%3,319 / 5,004
5×52:36.352:46.91
top 68.7%2,546 / 2,816
6×64:55.435:19.01
top 80.7%1,282 / 1,349
Clock32.4037.98
top 87.2%1,729 / 1,843
Megaminx3:53.97—
early days — 1 solve1,641 / 1,678
7×78:26.19—
top 91.0%1,234 / 1,261

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

Wuhan Open 2012: 22.53Nanjing Spring 2014: 19.60Nanjing Spring 2015: 18.19Wuhan Open 2015: 18.12Nanchang Open 2015: 15.36China Championship 2015: 17.96Nanchang Winter 2015: 17.74Shenzhen New Year 2016: 18.51Dongguan Open 2016: 16.88Guangzhou Rubik's Cube Days 2016: 15.84Huizhou Open 2016: 15.96Xiamen Open 2016: 14.40Shantou Open 2016: 14.34Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2016: 14.14Asian Championship 2016: 17.19Wuhan Open 2016: 16.82XJTU Open 2016: 16.11Quanzhou Open 2016: 12.46Shenzhen New Year 2017: 17.41ZUA Open 2017: 16.37Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2017: 16.03Wuhan NxN Open 2017: 15.84ZUST Open 2017: 14.82Chaozhou Open 2017: 14.98Beijing Open 2017: 14.69Quanzhou Side Event 2017: 15.49Xuchang Open 2017: 13.64Zhongshan Open 2017: 15.99WHU Rubik's Cube Days 2017: 16.96Chongqing Open 2017: 15.73Harbin Open 2018: 16.99Shenzhen Open 2018: 17.07China Championship 2018: 15.81Xi'an Open 2018: 17.36Hangzhou Open 2018: 16.41Shenzhen Nanshan 2018: 15.30Shenzhen 3x3 Days 2019: 17.42Weihai Open 2019: 19.09Xi'an 10th Anniversary 2019: 16.22Shenzhen Open 2019: 15.75Shandong Open 2019: 16.75Wuxi Winter 2019: 15.51Hefei Winter Open 2023: 16.60Changsha Open 2023: 16.25Shanghai Summer 2026: 20.04Ulanqab Small Cubes 2026: 17.5412.4622.534 Nov 201229 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.46 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.14 away.

Targets move as he improves.