People · China
Muyang Liu (刘慕阳)
3×3 · top 0.045% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2024 · 2024LIUM08
Muyang Liu (刘慕阳) has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 4.47, set at Yancheng Spring Open 2026, puts him in the top 0.045% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 31st in China. Until May 2018, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since August 2024, he has put 253 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 5.52 in August 2024 to 4.47, a 19% improvement. Muyang has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 4.47 | 5.29 | top 0.045% | 31 / 28,153 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 9.38 | 11.82 | top 0.68% | 56 / 5,922 | |
| 2×2 | 1.24 | 2.25 | top 1.2% | 128 / 15,796 | |
| 4×4 | 32.85 | 38.72 | top 4.8% | 476 / 5,926 |
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
- 25 Oct 2025Three personal bests in one day at Hefei Open 2025.
- 21 Sep 2024Three personal bests in one day at Xuzhou Autumn 2024.
- 24 Aug 2024First competition: Deqing Big Cubes Summer 2024. A 5.52 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Shanghai Summer 2026 · 1 Aug 2026
- Yancheng Spring Open 2026 · 29 Mar 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Xianju Special 2026 · 8 Mar 2026
- Xuzhou Open 2025 · 16 Nov 2025
- Hefei Open 2025 · 25 Oct 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Ningbo Autumn 2025 · 13 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Xuzhou Newcomers 2025 · 30 Mar 2025
- Xuzhou Autumn 2024 · 21 Sep 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Deqing Big Cubes Summer 2024 · 24 Aug 2024
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.
- Yechen Yan (颜叶辰) — met in 34 rounds, finished ahead 28 times
- Yiheng Wang (王艺衡) — met in 33 rounds, never finished ahead
- Ziyi Lu (陆梓熠) — met in 31 rounds, finished ahead 28 times
Next targets
- A sub-4 3×3 single — 38 people have one; it is 0.47 away.
- A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 1.38 away.
Targets move as he improves.