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Po-Hsien Lai (賴柏憲)

3×3 one-handed · top 0.42% of 73,695 all-time · competing since January 2022 · 2022LAIP01

Po-Hsien Lai (賴柏憲) has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 8.78, set at Maru Cube Day 2023, puts him in the top 0.42% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4th in Chinese Taipei. Until November 2014, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 25 competitions since January 2022, he has put 646 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 70% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 8.18 in January 2022 to 7.12, a 13% improvement. He has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.42% of 73,695 all-time
8.78
signature single · Maru Cube Day 2023
646
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 70% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
3×3 one-handed8.7811.08
top 0.42%4 / 802
3×37.128.30
top 1.5%81 / 4,213
4×430.0133.95
top 2.8%80 / 1,078
2×21.663.08
top 2.9%65 / 1,669
5×559.921:07.04
top 5.5%89 / 639
3×3 blindfolded36.934:05.80
top 6.0%8 / 147
7×72:57.203:01.47
top 9.8%46 / 252
6×61:57.282:01.08
top 9.9%54 / 292
3×3 Fewest Moves34 moves34.67
top 26.7%59 / 204
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 17:10—
top 72.3%38 / 54

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

Taiwan Open 2022: 8.18Chiayi Open 2022: 8.38Taiwan Championship 2022: 10.72Taichung Open 2023: 7.48CK Cubing Party 2023: 7.12New Taipei Open 2023: 8.93Maru Cube Day 2023: 9.04Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 8.84Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2023: 8.51Taiwan Championship 2023: 12.75Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2025: 7.96Taipei Summer Open 2025: 11.07Hsinchu Summer Open 2025: 8.33Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2025: 8.04Shin Kong Cube Open - Taitung 2025: 9.12Taipei Cube Open 2026: 7.81Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2026: 7.80Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2026: 7.95Shin Kong Cube Open - Taichung 2026: 8.227.1212.7514 Jan 202230 Aug 2026

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-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 0.78 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.12 away.

Targets move as he improves.