People · China
Rui Li (李瑞)
3×3 blindfolded · top 3.4% of 12,178 all-time · competing since March 2025 · 2025LIRU01
Rui Li (李瑞) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3 blindfolded: a personal-best single of 26.81, set at Hefei August Open 2026, puts him in the top 3.4% of the 12,178 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 55th in China. Until October 2012, no official 3×3 blindfolded solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since March 2025, he has put 30 official solves on the record across four events. Rui has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 blindfolded | 26.81 | — | top 3.4% | 55 / 1,183 | |
| 3×3 | 10.58 | 11.62 | top 9.2% | 3,606 / 28,153 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 20.18 | 20.99 | top 20.9% | 2,085 / 5,922 | |
| 4×4 | 53.11 | 56.48 | top 28.5% | 2,969 / 5,926 |
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
- 30 Mar 2025First competition: Xuzhou Newcomers 2025. A 13.36 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Hefei August Open 2026 · 15 Aug 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Deqing Big & Blind 2026 · 25 Apr 2026
- Please Be Quiet Hefei 2025 · 21 Dec 2025
- Yancheng Open 2025 · 7 Jun 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Xuzhou Newcomers 2025 · 30 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Yifan Wang (王逸帆) — met in 12 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Tao Zhu (朱韬) — met in 9 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
- Yakai Gu (谷雅凯) — met in 9 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
Next targets
- A sub-25 3×3 blindfolded single — 355 people have one; it is 1.81 away.
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.58 away.
Targets move as he improves.