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Nancy Liu
3×3 · top 0.032% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2018 · 2018LIUN01
Nancy Liu has been competing for 8 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 4.32, set at Temecula Valley Spring 2024, puts her in the top 0.032% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 24th in the United States. Until May 2018, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 44 competitions since November 2018, she has put 1,269 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 68% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 21.59 in November 2018 to 4.32, an 80% improvement. Nancy has entered 44 competitions, more competitions than 99% 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 | 4.32 | 5.99 | top 0.032% | 24 / 59,724 | |
| 2×2 | 0.88 | 1.29 | top 0.35% | 148 / 40,951 | |
| 4×4 | 23.46 | 31.07 | top 0.4% | 73 / 19,072 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.22 | 6.14 | top 8.8% | 2,260 / 28,708 | |
| Skewb | 5.23 | 11.07 | top 20.0% | 3,169 / 18,907 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 20.68 | 21.70 | top 22.4% | 2,869 / 15,683 | |
| 5×5 | 1:27.32 | 1:35.95 | top 25.2% | 1,963 / 9,401 | |
| Clock | 14.11 | 14.88 | top 44.3% | 3,558 / 8,927 |
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
- 4 Mar 2023Three personal bests in one day at Hong Kong Cube Day 2023.
- 15 Nov 2020First sub-10 3×3: 7.44 at Shenzhen Good Afternoon 2020.
- 9 Nov 2019First sub-20 3×3: 14.62 at Chengdu Winter 2019.
- 9 Nov 2019First sub-15 3×3: 14.62 at Chengdu Winter 2019.
- 9 Nov 2019Three personal bests in one day at Chengdu Winter 2019.
- 24 Nov 2018First competition: Chengdu Winter Open 2018. A 21.59 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2026 · 23 May 2026
- Agoura Winter 2026 · 24 Jan 2026
- Mission Viejo Fall 2025 · 12 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025 · 24 Aug 2025
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025 · 3 Jul 2025
- West Coast Cubing Tour: Los Angeles 2025 · 22 Jun 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Nub Open Mission Viejo Spring 2025 · 31 May 2025
- Let's Cube Long Beach 2025 · 25 May 2025
- Burbank Big Cubes 2025 · 26 Apr 2025 — 1 personal best set
- UCLA Spring 2025 · 20 Apr 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Agoura Side Events Day 2025 · 6 Apr 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2025 · 30 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- CubeChella 2024 · 14 Dec 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Aliso Niguel Summer 2024 · 8 Sep 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Bay Area Speedcubin' 63 - Atherton 2024 · 22 Jun 2024
- Agoura Cubing Returns 2024 · 15 Jun 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Temecula Valley Spring 2024 · 11 May 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Los Angeles Newcomers 2024 · 30 Mar 2024
- Orange County Newcomers 2024 · 3 Mar 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Triton Tricubealon 2024 · 11 Feb 2024
- USC Cubing 2024 · 3 Feb 2024
- University Heights Cubing Winter 2024 · 27 Jan 2024
- UCSD Winter 2024 · 7 Jan 2024 — 1 personal best set
- UCSD Winter 2023 · 16 Dec 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Beckman Gets Big 2023 · 10 Dec 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Nub Open Mission Viejo 2023 · 3 Dec 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Jurupa Valley Cubing Fall 2023 · 15 Oct 2023 — 1 personal best set
- UCSD Extravaganza 2023 · 7 Oct 2023
- Corona Summer 2023 · 2 Sep 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Santa Ana Summer B 2023 · 19 Aug 2023
- UCSD Summer 2023 · 5 Aug 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Agoura Cubing Again 2023 · 22 Jul 2023
- Hong Kong Small Cube Day 2023 · 26 May 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Hong Kong Cube Day 2023 · 4 Mar 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Guangdong Open 2021 · 1 May 2021 — 1 personal best set
- Xi'an Cherry Blossom PM 2021 · 11 Apr 2021
- Guangzhou Panyu Morning 2021 · 28 Feb 2021 — 2 personal bests set
- Chengdu New Year Afternoon 2021 · 3 Jan 2021 — 2 personal bests set
- Guangzhou Good Afternoon 2020 · 13 Dec 2020
- Shenzhen Good Afternoon 2020 · 15 Nov 2020 — 1 personal best set
- Xi'an New Year 2020 · 1 Jan 2020
- Chengdu Winter 2019 · 9 Nov 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- Chengdu Open 2019 · 1 May 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Chengdu Winter Open 2018 · 24 Nov 2018
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 her.
- Shane Grogan — met in 151 rounds, finished ahead 114 times
- Dan Tran — met in 148 rounds, finished ahead 99 times
- Dominic Shoji — met in 146 rounds, finished ahead 120 times
Next targets
- A sub-4 3×3 single — 38 people have one; it is 0.32 away.
- A sub-20 4×4 single — 42 people have one; it is 3.46 away.
Targets move as she improves.