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Ping Guan (关平)

3×3 · top 10.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2014 · 2014GUAN02

Ping Guan (关平) has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.84, set at Shenyang Spring 2024, puts him in the top 10.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,909th in China. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since December 2014, he has put 317 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 9% around a typical one, steadier than 99% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.67 in December 2014 to 10.84, a 26% improvement. Ping has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 10.0% of 284,439 all-time
10.84
signature single · Shenyang Spring 2024
317
official solves on the record
9%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 99% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×310.8412.54
top 10.0%3,909 / 28,153
3×3 one-handed16.8824.25
top 12.3%1,202 / 5,922
Pyraminx5.097.39
top 13.7%1,629 / 10,224
4×442.5147.09
top 15.1%1,631 / 5,926
Skewb5.969.67
top 25.4%1,574 / 5,004
2×24.075.23
top 27.4%4,649 / 15,796
5×51:42.922:09.28
top 37.5%1,691 / 2,816
Megaminx2:05.59
top 48.9%1,290 / 1,678
3×3 blindfolded2:54.98
top 51.1%712 / 1,183
7×75:10.305:19.47
top 54.0%929 / 1,261
6×64:18.554:31.67
early days — 3 solves1,197 / 1,349

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

Shenyang Open 2014: 14.67Shenyang Winter 2016: 12.75Dalian Winter 2017: 12.53Fushun Open 2018: 12.31Shenyang Open 2018: 11.94NEU Open 2019: 12.46Shenyang Open 2023: 11.72Fushun Open 2024: 12.71Shenyang Spring 2024: 10.84Dalian Open 2024: 12.58Shenyang Spring 2025: 10.90Shenyang Autumn 2025: 11.5910.8414.6714 Dec 201421 Sep 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.84 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 5,987 people have one; it is 1.88 away.

Targets move as he improves.