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Ming-Long Kao (高銘隆)

3×3 · top 2.9% of 288,433 all-time · competing since July 2022 · 2022KAOM01

Ming-Long Kao (高銘隆) has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.08, set at Shin Kong Cube Open - Kaohsiung 2026, puts him in the top 2.9% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 169th in Chinese Taipei. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since July 2022, he has put 352 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 65% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.85 in July 2022 to 8.08, a 66% improvement. He has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.9% of 288,433 all-time
8.08
signature single · Shin Kong Cube Open - Kaohsiung 2026
352
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 65% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
3×38.089.91
top 2.9%169 / 4,369
2×21.873.65
top 4.0%101 / 1,671
Pyraminx3.175.25
top 4.2%63 / 1,017
4×433.8937.02
top 5.8%146 / 1,079
Megaminx56.4258.61
top 8.2%46 / 363
5×51:05.061:08.96
top 8.5%139 / 640
6×62:08.582:16.04
top 14.9%88 / 293
3×3 one-handed18.5321.70
top 16.5%220 / 805
Skewb5.617.14
top 22.9%230 / 700
7×73:40.53—
early days — 2 solves104 / 252
Square-122.7340.19
top 34.2%148 / 323

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

Chiayi Open 2022: 23.85Maru Cube Day 2022: 30.62Yunlin Winter Open 2022: 21.32Maru Cube Day 2023: 18.67Taiwan Championship 2023: 20.41Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2024: 14.43Shin Kong Cube Open - Taichung 2024: 15.60Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2024: 13.68Taiwan Championship 2024: 14.27Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2025: 12.98Hsinchu Summer Open 2025: 10.77Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2025: 11.01Shin Kong Cube Open - Kaohsiung 2025: 9.51Taiwan Championship 2025: 9.24Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2026: 9.60Shin Kong Cube Open - Taichung 2026: 8.43Shin Kong Cube Open - Kaohsiung 2026: 8.088.0830.6223 Jul 202213 Sep 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-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.08 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.87 away.

Targets move as he improves.