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Qi Xiao (肖奇)

3×3 · top 3.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2016 · 2016XIAO12

Qi Xiao (肖奇) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.35, set at Deqing Big Cubes Summer 2024, puts him in the top 3.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,280th in China. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since November 2016, he has put 148 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.28 in November 2016 to 8.35, a 54% improvement. Qi has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.4% of 284,439 all-time
8.35
signature single · Deqing Big Cubes Summer 2024
148
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×38.3511.61
top 3.4%1,280 / 28,153
2×24.105.34
top 27.8%4,713 / 15,796
4×453.871:06.14
top 29.4%3,028 / 5,926
5×51:49.001:58.84
top 41.9%1,855 / 2,816
3×3 one-handed32.8140.66
top 52.9%4,503 / 5,922
7×75:08.395:23.32
early days — 3 solves923 / 1,261
Pyraminx11.5713.28
top 64.5%6,541 / 10,224
Skewb12.8717.59
top 70.1%3,683 / 5,004
3×3 blindfolded8:30.48
early days — 1 solve1,174 / 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

Shanghai Winter is Coming 2016: 18.28Shanghai Love In ECNU 2017: 14.91Shanghai Love in ECNU 2018: 12.37SJTU Open 2018: 12.93SJTU Winter Open 2018: 12.66Kunshan Open 2019: 13.44Shanghai Open 2019: 10.54Hefei Winter Open 2023: 11.20Huzhou Open 2024: 10.07Kunshan Open 2024: 14.44Deqing Big Cubes Summer 2024: 8.35Xuzhou Autumn 2024: 9.308.3518.285 Nov 201621 Sep 2024

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 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.35 away.
  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.10 away.

Targets move as he improves.