People · United States
Ruichen Li
3×3 · top 0.37% of 284,439 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 0.37% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 248th in the United States. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 52 competitions since April 2022, he has put 1,811 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 54% of the 35,811 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 52 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 5.80 | 8.72 | top 0.37% | 248 / 59,724 | |
| Megaminx | 34.37 | 40.15 | top 0.59% | 39 / 7,841 | |
| 2×2 | 1.46 | 3.22 | top 2.0% | 793 / 40,951 | |
| 4×4 | 31.25 | 34.60 | top 3.6% | 587 / 19,072 | |
| Skewb | 3.32 | 4.92 | top 6.7% | 1,031 / 18,907 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.38 | 5.71 | top 9.6% | 2,484 / 28,708 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 16.14 | 19.05 | top 10.5% | 1,394 / 15,683 | |
| 5×5 | 1:08.84 | 1:16.22 | top 10.8% | 841 / 9,401 | |
| Clock | 7.80 | 9.64 | top 14.2% | 1,084 / 8,927 | |
| 6×6 | 2:34.08 | 2:40.29 | top 27.7% | 984 / 4,196 | |
| 7×7 | 4:11.49 | 4:28.29 | top 34.8% | 973 / 3,184 |
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
- 7 Aug 2026Five personal bests in one day at BC Championship 2026.
- 16 Aug 2024Four personal bests in one day at BC Championship 2024.
- 30 Sep 2023Three personal bests in one day at Lucky Lynnwood 2023.
- 13 Jul 2023Five personal bests in one day at Canadian Championship 2023.
- 27 May 2023Four personal bests in one day at Kent Spring 2023.
- 6 May 2023Four personal bests in one day at Rose City 2023.
Competitions
- Northwest Championship 2026 · 21 Aug 2026 — 1 personal best set
- BC Championship 2026 · 7 Aug 2026 — 5 personal bests set
- Seattle Summer 2026 · 11 Jul 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Kent Fall 2025 · 22 Nov 2025
- Richmond Fall 2025 · 11 Oct 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Coffee Cup Tacoma 2025 · 9 Aug 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025 · 3 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Warm Up Seattle 2025 · 28 Jun 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Kent Spring 2025 · 31 May 2025
- Worlds Warmup Woodinville 2025 · 29 Mar 2025
- Lopes Up AZ 2025 · 15 Feb 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Kirkland Pyra Fest 2024 · 14 Dec 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Olympia Fall 2024 · 9 Nov 2024
- Bellevue Squan Fest 2024 · 2 Nov 2024
- Kent Summer 2024 · 7 Sep 2024
- BC Championship 2024 · 16 Aug 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2024 · 28 Jun 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Husky Pride Seattle 2024 · 15 Jun 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Bellingham Spring 2024 · 1 Jun 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Kent Spring 2024 · 25 May 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Olympia Classic 2024 · 5 May 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Juanita Hippocampus 2024 · 13 Apr 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Lakewood Newcomers 2024 · 23 Mar 2024
- Tacoma Winter Twisters 2024 · 20 Jan 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- SnoCo Veterans Day Weekend 2023 · 10 Nov 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Odd Olympia 2023 · 28 Oct 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Lakewood Fall 2023 · 14 Oct 2023
- Lucky Lynnwood 2023 · 30 Sep 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Stumptown Speedcubing Summer 2023 · 22 Jul 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Canadian Championship 2023 · 13 Jul 2023 — 5 personal bests set
- Maltby Mega Special 2023 · 9 Jul 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Bothell Summer 2023 · 8 Jul 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Mill Creek 2023 · 10 Jun 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Kent Spring 2023 · 27 May 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- Lakewood Spring 2023 · 13 May 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Rose City 2023 · 6 May 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- Welcome to Olympia 2023 · 29 Apr 2023
- Washington Championship 2023 · 14 Apr 2023 — 5 personal bests set
- Central Washington Evens 2023 · 12 Mar 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- Sleepless in Seattle 2023 · 18 Feb 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Lynnwood Winter 2023 · 7 Jan 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Big Cubes in Bothell 2022 · 10 Dec 2022
- SnoCo Veteran's Weekend A 2022 · 11 Nov 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- New Kent On The Block 2022 · 15 Oct 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- SnoCo NxN 2022 · 24 Sep 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- Bellevue Cubing for Children's 2022 · 27 Aug 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Oregon Championship 2022 · 12 Aug 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- SnoCo Favorites 2022 · 6 Aug 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Inland Empire Summer 2022 · 30 Jul 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Odd Seattle Summer 2022 · 28 May 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Rose City 2022 · 7 May 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Central Washington Spring 2022 · 23 Apr 2022 — 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.
- Sameer Aggarwal — met in 241 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
- Ash Black — met in 218 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
- Max Siauw — met in 212 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
Next targets
- A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.80 away.
- A sub-30 Megaminx single — 75 people have one; it is 4.37 away.
Targets move as he improves.