People · China
Pengyu Xu (徐鹏宇)
2×2 · top 5.3% of 186,767 all-time · competing since July 2016 · 2016XUPE01
Pengyu Xu (徐鹏宇) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.08, set at Xuzhou Autumn 2024, puts him in the top 5.3% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 741st in China. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since July 2016, he has put 111 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 79% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.73 in July 2016 to 9.18, a 28% improvement. Pengyu has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 2.08 | 4.08 | top 5.3% | 741 / 15,796 | |
| 3×3 | 9.18 | 11.95 | top 5.3% | 2,034 / 28,153 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 18.22 | 24.61 | top 15.7% | 1,535 / 5,922 | |
| Skewb | 5.12 | 8.12 | top 19.1% | 1,186 / 5,004 | |
| 4×4 | 51.88 | 56.21 | top 27.0% | 2,850 / 5,926 | |
| Pyraminx | 7.44 | 10.39 | top 31.5% | 3,468 / 10,224 |
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
- 15 Aug 2025Four personal bests in one day at Vietnam Championship 2025.
- 25 Aug 2024First sub-10 3×3: 9.87 at Deqing Small Cubes Summer 2024.
- 25 Aug 2024Four personal bests in one day at Deqing Small Cubes Summer 2024.
- 10 Jul 2016First competition: Nanchang Open 2016. A 13.62 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Shanghai Summer 2026 · 1 Aug 2026
- Vietnam Championship 2025 · 15 Aug 2025 — 4 personal bests set
- Xuzhou Autumn 2024 · 21 Sep 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Deqing Small Cubes Summer 2024 · 25 Aug 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Wuxi Winter 2019 · 8 Dec 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Nanchang Open 2016 · 10 Jul 2016 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Qi Zhou (周祺) — met in 13 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Zhe Wang (汪哲) — met in 12 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
- Ming Zheng (郑鸣) — met in 10 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
Next targets
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.08 away.
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.18 away.
Targets move as he improves.