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Michael Chou (周禹)

3×3 one-handed · top 1.3% of 73,695 all-time · competing since May 2021 · 2021CHOU01

Michael Chou (周禹) has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 10.34, set at Vietnam Championship 2024, puts him in the top 1.3% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 18th in Chinese Taipei. Until December 2011, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 48 competitions since May 2021, he has put 1,744 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 82% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.93 in May 2021 to 7.50, a 58% improvement. Michael has entered 48 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 1.3% of 73,695 all-time
10.34
signature single · Vietnam Championship 2024
1,744
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 82% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
3×3 one-handed10.3412.75
top 1.3%18 / 802
Pyraminx2.343.91
top 1.8%28 / 1,016
3×37.508.94
top 2.0%114 / 4,213
5×551.4058.54
top 2.2%38 / 639
7×72:21.752:31.06
top 2.6%21 / 252
4×430.3633.17
top 3.0%86 / 1,078
6×61:36.821:45.12
top 3.3%26 / 292
2×21.783.29
top 3.5%86 / 1,669
Skewb2.974.56
top 4.8%45 / 699
Megaminx59.301:05.35
top 9.6%53 / 362
Clock7.6911.28
top 13.7%62 / 366
Square-116.6324.03
top 20.1%95 / 323
3×3 Fewest Moves32 moves37.67
top 20.4%40 / 204

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

Welcome Back Kaohsiung 2021: 17.93Kaohsiung Winter Open 2022: 12.71CK Cubing Party 2022: 13.33Maru Cube Day 2022: 10.63Taoyuan Cubing Open 2022: 10.66Taiwan Championship 2022: 8.41Taichung Open 2023: 8.35CK Cubing Party 2023: 10.21Taiwan Cubing Challenge 2023: 9.39New Taipei Open 2023: 9.68Maru Cube Day 2023: 8.54Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 9.28Pingtung Summer Open 2023: 8.17Shin Kong Cube Open 2023: 8.60Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2023: 8.69Taiwan Championship 2023: 9.45Kaohsiung Winter Open 2024: 8.74HCHS Winter Open 2024: 9.28Taichung Open 2024: 7.96Honhui Cubing Carnival 2024: 8.77Zhongshan Open 2024: 8.16Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2024: 9.74Taipei Summer Open 2024: 7.95Philippine Championship 2024: 8.49Vietnam Championship 2024: 7.78Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2024: 7.50Hsinchu Summer Open 2024: 9.59Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2024: 9.35Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2024: 8.52Taiwan Championship 2024: 7.58Pingtung Winter Open 2025: 8.66BQHS Spring Open 2025: 7.65Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2025: 8.65Taipei Summer Open 2025: 8.02Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2025: 9.11Hsinchu Summer Open 2025: 7.99Shin Kong Cube Open - New Taipei 2025: 8.78Zhongshan Open 2026: 8.84Taipei Cube Open 2026: 8.40Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2026: 8.52Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2026: 9.317.5017.939 May 202125 Jul 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-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 0.34 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.34 away.

Targets move as he improves.