Saturday 24 October 2026 Rebuilt nightly from the WCA's official results · export of 24 October 2026 · About
The Middle Three
People → Australia → Richard Albert Li

People · Australia

Richard Albert Li

3×3 · top 0.55% of 288,433 all-time · competing since March 2023 · 2023LIRI02

Richard Albert Li has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.10, set at Cairns Open 2026, puts him in the top 0.55% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 59th in Australia. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 29 competitions since March 2023, he has put 937 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 51% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 47.06 in March 2023 to 6.10, an 87% improvement. Richard has entered 29 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.55% of 288,433 all-time
6.10
signature single · Cairns Open 2026
937
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
3×36.108.70
top 0.55%59 / 11,943
2×21.562.73
top 2.4%206 / 8,727
Pyraminx3.314.58
top 4.7%213 / 6,109
3×3 one-handed16.1719.78
top 10.7%244 / 2,685
4×440.7848.00
top 13.1%334 / 3,108
Clock11.0313.99
top 30.1%334 / 1,159
Skewb7.9012.67
top 40.6%1,252 / 3,589
5×51:48.282:04.66
top 41.5%580 / 1,412
Megaminx2:24.273:07.22
top 58.6%753 / 1,313

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

Speedcubing at Seaworks 2023: 47.06Melbourne Cubing for Kids Sunday 2023: 22.62Cranbourne Spring Sunday 2023: 25.19The Big Cube Melbourne 2023: 22.95Melbourne Cube Days 2023: 20.01Hampton Park Summer Saturday 2023: 18.39Melbourne Summer 2024: 14.31Kensington May Saturday 2024: 12.22The Big Cube Melbourne 2024: 13.47Spark Melbourne Spring Sunday 2024: 10.85Melbourne Cube Days 2024: 10.11Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2024: 9.53Melbourne Summer 2025: 9.94Brilliant Ballarat 2025: 10.66Spark Melbourne February 2025: 10.07Don't Inverloch Up 2025: 9.92VIC State Championship 2025: 11.40Spark Melbourne July 2025: 9.65Kubing in Klemzig 2025: 8.00Puzzling Pakenham Saturday 2025: 8.83The Big Cube Melbourne 2025: 8.12Melbourne Cube Days 2025: 9.09Melbourne Summer 2026: 8.46Don't Inverloch Up 2026: 8.24North-East Melbourne March Sunday 2026: 7.10Tamar Valley Turning 2026: 7.44Spark Melbourne Autumn Sunday 2026: 7.90Australian Nationals 2026: 7.98Cairns Open 2026: 6.106.1047.0618 Mar 20233 Oct 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-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.10 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.56 away.

Targets move as he improves.