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Qinqi Li (李钦琪)

3×3 · top 1.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2025 · 2025LIQI03

Qinqi Li (李钦琪) has been competing for a year. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.11, set at Wuhu Open 2026, puts her in the top 1.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 516th in China. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since April 2025, she has put 102 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 94% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 9.47 in April 2025 to 7.11, a 25% improvement. Qinqi has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.5% of 284,439 all-time
7.11
signature single · Wuhu Open 2026
102
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 94% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×37.119.16
top 1.5%516 / 28,153
Pyraminx2.503.63
top 2.2%261 / 10,224
2×22.803.88
top 12.0%1,860 / 15,796
3×3 one-handed19.7122.03
top 19.7%1,973 / 5,922

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

Nanchang Spring 2025: 9.47Nanchang Winter 2025: 8.66Nanchang Summer 2026: 9.01Wuhu Open 2026: 7.11Shanghai Summer 2026: 9.077.119.4726 Apr 20251 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.11 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.50 away.

Targets move as she improves.