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Pengrui Xiang (向鹏睿)

3×3 · top 2.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2017 · 2017XIAN07

Pengrui Xiang (向鹏睿) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.84, set at Xuzhou Newcomers 2025, puts him in the top 2.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 910th in China. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since May 2017, he has put 494 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 89% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.14 in May 2017 to 7.84, a 45% improvement. Pengrui has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.5% of 284,439 all-time
7.84
signature single · Xuzhou Newcomers 2025
494
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 89% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×37.8410.45
top 2.5%910 / 28,153
4×436.1840.56
top 7.8%813 / 5,926
Skewb3.836.36
top 9.8%572 / 5,004
Pyraminx4.575.83
top 10.6%1,264 / 10,224
5×51:12.721:18.67
top 13.6%668 / 2,816
2×23.034.31
top 14.6%2,296 / 15,796
6×62:08.712:20.81
top 14.8%321 / 1,349
Megaminx1:10.911:16.66
top 16.2%479 / 1,678
7×73:21.533:45.19
top 16.8%351 / 1,261
3×3 one-handed19.2121.48
top 18.4%1,835 / 5,922
Clock9.4311.60
top 22.1%489 / 1,843
Square-119.1326.10
top 25.9%435 / 1,362
3×3 Fewest Moves39 moves40.33
early days — 3 solves515 / 1,058
3×3 blindfolded2:47.47—
early days — 2 solves681 / 1,183

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

Tangshan Open 2017: 14.14Beijing Open 2017: 12.60China Championship 2017: 12.92Beijing Ten Years Open 2017: 10.41Beijing Open 2018: 12.93China Championship 2018: 11.43Beijing Winter 2018: 11.16Beijing Summer 2019: 11.57Beijing Spring PM 2021: 12.40Fushun Open 2024: 9.09Tianjin Open 2024: 10.57Malaysia 15th Anniversary Championship 2024: 8.45Zhengzhou Open 2024: 10.30Xuzhou Newcomers 2025: 7.84Beijing Summer 2025: 10.817.8414.1428 May 201717 May 2025

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.84 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 6.18 away.

Targets move as he improves.