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Rui Qin (秦睿)

Clock · top 7.7% of 32,048 all-time · competing since October 2017 · 2017QINR02

Rui Qin (秦睿) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 6.13, set at Xuzhou Open PM 2021, puts him in the top 7.7% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 156th in China. Until July 2011, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 26 competitions since October 2017, he has put 585 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.52 in October 2017 to 10.10, a 42% improvement. Rui has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 7.7% of 32,048 all-time
6.13
signature single · Xuzhou Open PM 2021
585
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 56% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
Clock6.137.34
top 7.7%156 / 1,843
3×310.1012.11
top 7.8%3,018 / 28,153
4×440.6645.35
top 12.9%1,389 / 5,926
Pyraminx5.569.27
top 16.8%1,967 / 10,224
Megaminx1:13.061:18.16
top 17.5%524 / 1,678
3×3 one-handed19.2124.36
top 18.4%1,835 / 5,922
5×51:21.371:31.57
top 20.2%957 / 2,816
2×23.914.59
top 25.3%4,274 / 15,796
Square-119.7026.15
top 27.3%458 / 1,362
7×74:15.504:24.85
top 36.3%699 / 1,261
6×62:55.483:13.22
top 38.8%787 / 1,349
Skewb8.1112.93
top 42.1%2,481 / 5,004
3×3 Fewest Moves45 moves47.33
early days — 3 solves774 / 1,058

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

Xiamen Autumn 2017: 17.52Beijing Summer 2018: 17.43Wuhu Open 2018: 15.97Hefei Spring 2019: 12.17AHAU Open 2019: 12.78Beijing Summer 2019: 12.01China Championship 2019: 12.18Shenzhen Cubing 10th Anniversary 2019: 12.82Wuhan Autumn 2019: 12.19Xuzhou Open PM 2021: 12.67Shenzhen Youth Open 2023: 10.10Huizhou 10th Anniversary 2024: 13.00Zhuhai Open 2025: 12.12Hefei Open 2025: 11.11Guangdong Open - Revival & Rival 2026: 10.88Quanzhou Summer 2026: 11.75Maoming Open 2026: 12.93Zhanjiang Open 2026: 10.48Fuzhou Summer 2026: 12.1210.1017.5215 Oct 201723 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-6 Clock single — 2,324 people have one; it is 0.13 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.10 away.

Targets move as he improves.