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Ruichen Li

3×3 · top 0.38% of 288,433 all-time · competing since April 2022 · 2022LIRU02

Ruichen Li has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.80, set at Coffee Cup Tacoma 2025, puts him in the top 0.38% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 255th in the United States. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 53 competitions since April 2022, he has put 1,850 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.04 in April 2022 to 5.80, a 59% improvement. Ruichen has entered 53 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.38% of 288,433 all-time
5.80
signature single · Coffee Cup Tacoma 2025
1,850
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×35.808.60
top 0.38%255 / 60,666
Megaminx34.3740.15
top 0.6%40 / 8,026
2×21.463.22
top 2.0%811 / 41,674
4×431.2534.60
top 3.7%599 / 19,354
Skewb3.324.92
top 6.7%1,052 / 19,164
Pyraminx4.385.71
top 9.6%2,536 / 29,168
3×3 one-handed16.1419.05
top 10.6%1,426 / 15,900
5×51:08.841:16.22
top 10.9%858 / 9,537
Clock7.809.64
top 14.1%1,107 / 9,172
6×62:34.082:40.29
top 27.8%1,003 / 4,262
7×74:11.494:28.29
top 34.8%987 / 3,236

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

Central Washington Spring 2022: 14.04Rose City 2022: 13.03Odd Seattle Summer 2022: 12.93Inland Empire Summer 2022: 11.33SnoCo Favorites 2022: 12.27Oregon Championship 2022: 12.11Bellevue Cubing for Children's 2022: 11.42SnoCo NxN 2022: 10.99New Kent On The Block 2022: 10.47SnoCo Veteran's Weekend A 2022: 8.72Big Cubes in Bothell 2022: 10.59Lynnwood Winter 2023: 10.52Sleepless in Seattle 2023: 10.24Central Washington Evens 2023: 10.38Washington Championship 2023: 9.25Welcome to Olympia 2023: 9.49Rose City 2023: 8.62Lakewood Spring 2023: 9.28Kent Spring 2023: 8.55Mill Creek 2023: 9.86Bothell Summer 2023: 9.19Maltby Mega Special 2023: 8.85Canadian Championship 2023: 8.51Stumptown Speedcubing Summer 2023: 9.78Lucky Lynnwood 2023: 8.92Lakewood Fall 2023: 8.76Odd Olympia 2023: 8.23SnoCo Veterans Day Weekend 2023: 8.32Tacoma Winter Twisters 2024: 8.44Lakewood Newcomers 2024: 8.91Olympia Classic 2024: 7.60Kent Spring 2024: 8.84Bellingham Spring 2024: 8.38Husky Pride Seattle 2024: 8.17CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2024: 6.92BC Championship 2024: 8.64Kent Summer 2024: 9.01Olympia Fall 2024: 7.05Lopes Up AZ 2025: 7.83Worlds Warmup Woodinville 2025: 8.22Kent Spring 2025: 8.15Warm Up Seattle 2025: 7.33Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 8.39Coffee Cup Tacoma 2025: 5.80Richmond Fall 2025: 6.98Kent Fall 2025: 6.80Seattle Summer 2026: 7.02BC Championship 2026: 7.27Northwest Championship 2026: 7.75Tacoma Fall 2026: 7.175.8014.0423 Apr 202210 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-5 3×3 single — 355 people have one; it is 0.80 away.
  • A sub-30 Megaminx single — 76 people have one; it is 4.37 away.

Targets move as he improves.