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Qinglang Liu (刘晴朗)

3×3 one-handed · top 0.73% of 73,695 all-time · competing since May 2021 · 2021LIUQ01

Qinglang Liu (刘晴朗) has been competing for 5 years. Her best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 9.45, set at Nanning Open 2026, puts her in the top 0.73% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 59th in China. Until December 2012, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since May 2021, she has put 174 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 69% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 20.38 in May 2021 to 6.37, a 69% improvement. Qinglang has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.73% of 73,695 all-time
9.45
signature single · Nanning Open 2026
174
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 69% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×3 one-handed9.4511.89
top 0.73%59 / 5,922
3×36.377.63
top 0.74%275 / 28,153
4×426.1127.68
top 1.0%98 / 5,926

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

Guilin Open 2021: 20.38Guiyang Open 2024: 7.92Guilin Open 2024: 6.88Jiangmen Open 2025: 6.84Guilin Open 2025: 7.74Liuzhou Open 2026: 6.37Nanning Open 2026: 6.616.3720.3816 May 202123 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 1.45 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.37 away.

Targets move as she improves.