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Qiyu Shao (邵齐语)

3×3 · top 1.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2024 · 2024SHAO02

Qiyu Shao (邵齐语) has been competing for 2 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.90, set at Beijing Summer 2025, puts her in the top 1.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 435th in China. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since April 2024, she has put 122 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 90% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 7.79 in April 2024 to 6.90, an 11% improvement. Qiyu has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.2% of 284,439 all-time
6.90
signature single · Beijing Summer 2025
122
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 90% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×36.908.41
top 1.2%435 / 28,153
2×22.593.16
top 9.8%1,481 / 15,796
Skewb4.236.01
top 12.5%752 / 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

Shenyang Spring 2024: 7.79Zibo Open 2024: 8.51Chengdu Spring Open 2025: 7.40Beijing Summer 2025: 6.90Zibo Open 2025: 7.606.908.515 Apr 202410 Aug 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.90 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.59 away.

Targets move as she improves.