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Maximus Li
3×3 · top 23.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2024 · 2024LIMA05
Maximus Li has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 14.59, set at UCLA Spring 2025, puts him in the top 23.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 12,474th in the United States. Across 7 competitions since February 2024, he has put 92 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 67% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.74 in February 2024 to 14.59, a 26% improvement. Maximus has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 14.59 | 17.01 | top 23.0% | 12,474 / 59,724 | |
| 2×2 | 3.94 | 6.57 | top 25.7% | 10,111 / 40,951 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 23.36 | 28.85 | top 29.7% | 3,853 / 15,683 |
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
- 20 Apr 2025First sub-15 3×3: 14.59 at UCLA Spring 2025.
- 11 Feb 2024First competition: Triton Tricubealon 2024. A 21.85 3×3 single to start from.
- 11 Feb 2024First sub-20 3×3: 19.74 at Triton Tricubealon 2024.
Competitions
- West Coast Cubing Tour: Los Angeles 2025 · 22 Jun 2025
- Let's Cube Long Beach 2025 · 25 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- UCLA Spring 2025 · 20 Apr 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Los Angeles Newcomers 2024 · 30 Mar 2024
- Orange County Newcomers 2024 · 3 Mar 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Fullerton Winter 2024 · 24 Feb 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Triton Tricubealon 2024 · 11 Feb 2024 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Shane Grogan — met in 19 rounds, never finished ahead
- Shiloh D'Espyne — met in 17 rounds, never finished ahead
- Alex Lehman — met in 15 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 2.59 away.
- A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.94 away.
Targets move as he improves.