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Qingxuan Wu (吴青轩)

3×3 · top 3.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2016 · 2016WUQI02

Qingxuan Wu (吴青轩) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.42, set at Berkeley September Weekday 2025, puts him in the top 3.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,343rd in China. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since August 2016, he has put 361 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 83% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.93 in August 2016 to 8.42, a 35% improvement. Qingxuan has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.6% of 284,439 all-time
8.42
signature single · Berkeley September Weekday 2025
361
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 83% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×38.4210.40
top 3.6%1,343 / 28,153
3×3 one-handed13.9418.86
top 6.0%569 / 5,922
Skewb3.636.14
top 8.5%487 / 5,004
2×22.503.95
top 8.9%1,312 / 15,796
4×438.9148.32
top 10.9%1,152 / 5,926
Pyraminx4.758.85
top 11.7%1,397 / 10,224
Clock13.0514.97
top 39.8%954 / 1,843

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

Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2016: 12.93Hong Kong Cube Day 2017: 14.11GDSY Open 2017: 10.57Shantou Open 2017: 9.02China's 10th Anniversary Championship 2017: 10.84Shenzhen Open 2017: 12.10Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2018: 11.19Shenzhen Cubing 10th Anniversary 2019: 10.51Shenzhen Open 2019: 12.07Guangdong Open 2021: 8.76Penn Cube Day Spring 2025: 10.00Davis Summer 2025: 9.57Benicia Open 2025: 9.56Berkeley September Weekday 2025: 8.42San Ramon Fall 2025: 9.05Berkeley October Weekday 2025: 10.618.4214.1113 Aug 201624 Oct 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.42 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 1.94 away.

Targets move as he improves.