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Max Li

3×3 · top 1.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2022 · 2022LIMA02

Max Li has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.95, set at Bay Area Speedcubin' 46 Live - SSF 2023, puts him in the top 1.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 777th in the United States. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 27 competitions since April 2022, he has put 661 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 89% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.71 in April 2022 to 6.95, a 45% improvement. Max has entered 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.3% of 284,439 all-time
6.95
signature single · Bay Area Speedcubin' 46 Live - SSF 2023
661
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 89% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.958.95
top 1.3%777 / 59,724
2×21.382.34
top 1.6%657 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed13.5116.45
top 5.3%746 / 15,683
Pyraminx4.156.15
top 8.4%2,156 / 28,708
Square-113.2218.46
top 12.4%857 / 6,743
4×445.7749.52
top 19.3%2,924 / 19,072
5×51:48.482:01.30
top 41.5%3,366 / 9,401
Megaminx2:07.88—
top 50.0%3,729 / 7,841

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

Bay Area Speedcubin' 31A - Mill Valley 2022: 12.71Bay Area Speedcubin' 32 LIVE - SSF 2022: 12.94Bay Area Speedcubin' 34 - San Ramon 2022: 10.01SacCubing XII 2022: 9.65Berkeley Fall 2022: 9.71Bay Area Speedcubin' 39 2022: 8.33Bay Area Speedcubin' 40 - San Ramon 2022: 8.48SacCubing XIII 2023: 9.55Bay Area Speedcubin' 41 2023: 8.80Berkeley Spring 2023: 9.16Bay Area Speedcubin' 43 2023: 8.73Bay Area Speedcubin' 44 2023: 7.99Bay Area Speedcubin' 46 Live - SSF 2023: 6.95Bay Area Speedcubin' 47 - Berkeley Pride 2023: 8.10Bay Area Speedcubin' 48 - 6.25 Berkeley 2023: 7.43CubingUSA Western Championship 2023: 8.92Bay Area Speedcubin' 50 - Berkeley 2023: 8.23Berkeley Summer 2023: 8.08Bay Area Speedcubin' 52 - Belmont 2023: 7.77Bay Area Speedcubin' 53 - Berkeley 2023: 7.55Berkeley Fall 2023: 10.05Berkeley Winter 2024: 8.40Bay Area Speedcubin' 62 LIVE - SSF 2024: 8.04Bay Area Speedcubin' 65 - Berkeley 2024: 9.446.9512.9423 Apr 202229 Sep 2024

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.

  • Varun Mohanraj — met in 117 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
  • Stanley Tran — met in 113 rounds, finished ahead 27 times
  • An Le — met in 110 rounds, finished ahead 20 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.95 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.38 away.

Targets move as he improves.