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Quanyu Li (李荃宇)

3×3 · top 0.31% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2025 · 2025LIQU01

Quanyu Li (李荃宇) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.66, set at Start of Summer Beijing 2026, puts him in the top 0.31% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 129th in China. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since January 2025, he has put 231 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 8.59 in January 2025 to 5.66, a 34% improvement. Quanyu has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.31% of 284,439 all-time
5.66
signature single · Start of Summer Beijing 2026
231
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×35.667.02
top 0.31%129 / 28,153
Pyraminx2.774.40
top 2.9%341 / 10,224
2×21.862.12
top 3.9%522 / 15,796

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

Beijing Winter 2025: 8.59Beijing Summer 2025: 7.29Harbin Open 2025: 7.92Zibo Open 2025: 6.91Shenyang Autumn 2025: 6.26Beijing Only 3x3 2025: 7.14Beijing Winter 2026: 6.60Beijing Spring Open 2026: 6.82Start of Summer Beijing 2026: 5.66Beijing Autumn Begins 2026: 5.945.668.594 Jan 202522 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.66 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.77 away.

Targets move as he improves.