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Qingfeng Gu (谷青峰)

3×3 · top 2.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024GUQI01

Qingfeng Gu (谷青峰) has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.72, set at Chengdu Welcoming Summer 2026, puts him in the top 2.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 836th in China. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since March 2024, he has put 110 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.96 in March 2024 to 7.72, a 48% improvement. Qingfeng has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.3% of 284,439 all-time
7.72
signature single · Chengdu Welcoming Summer 2026
110
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×37.728.65
top 2.3%836 / 28,153
2×21.822.77
top 3.7%492 / 15,796
Pyraminx6.887.42
top 26.9%3,010 / 10,224
Skewb7.438.67
top 37.0%2,225 / 5,004

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

Xuzhou Open 2024: 14.96Nanchang Spring 2024: 14.91Chengdu Summer 2024: 12.32Chengdu Spring Open 2025: 8.96Zhuhai Pi Day 2026: 8.00Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2026: 7.95Chengdu Welcoming Summer 2026: 7.727.7214.9630 Mar 20244 May 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.72 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.82 away.

Targets move as he improves.