People · Canada
Richard Li
3×3 · top 6.1% of 288,433 all-time · competing since July 2018 · 2018LIWE05
Richard Li has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.47, set at Berkeley Fall 2025, puts him in the top 6.1% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 587th in Canada. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since July 2018, he has put 158 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 72% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.21 in July 2018 to 9.47, a 55% improvement. Richard has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 9.47 | 11.49 | top 6.1% | 587 / 10,502 | |
| 2×2 | 2.47 | 4.53 | top 8.7% | 567 / 7,245 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.24 | 6.69 | top 8.9% | 322 / 4,913 | |
| Skewb | 4.82 | 7.46 | top 16.9% | 373 / 2,928 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 20.10 | 27.85 | top 20.8% | 445 / 2,632 | |
| Square-1 | 17.73 | 26.19 | top 22.7% | 192 / 973 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 1:59.83 | 2:37.16 | top 33.4% | 111 / 362 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 4 Oct 2025First sub-10 3×3: 9.47 at Berkeley Fall 2025.
- 2 Oct 2018First sub-20 3×3: 14.91 at China Championship 2018.
- 2 Oct 2018First sub-15 3×3: 14.91 at China Championship 2018.
- 29 Jul 2018First competition: Beijing Summer 2018. A 21.21 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Cool Down Berkeley 2025 · 2 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Berkeley October Weekday 2025 · 24 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Berkeley Fall 2025 · 4 Oct 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Berkeley September Weekday 2025 · 19 Sep 2025
- Berkeley August Weekday 2025 · 27 Aug 2025
- UCLA Summer 2025 · 20 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Berkeley Winter 2025 · 8 Feb 2025
- Berkeley Fall 2024 · 13 Oct 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Xuzhou Winter 2018 · 24 Nov 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- China Championship 2018 · 2 Oct 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- Beijing Summer 2018 · 29 Jul 2018
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.
- Ethan Jan — met in 21 rounds, never finished ahead
- Diego Jiashu Jiang (蒋佳澍) — met in 17 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
- James Chea — met in 17 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 1.47 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.47 away.
Targets move as he improves.