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Ruicheng Qi (齐睿诚)

7×7 · top 0.34% of 14,226 all-time · competing since November 2025 · 2025QIRU01

Ruicheng Qi (齐睿诚) has been competing for 10 months. His best event is the 7×7: a personal-best single of 1:54.56, set at Hefei August Open 2026, puts him in the top 0.34% of the 14,226 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 6th in China. Until July 2018, no official 7×7 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since November 2025, he has put 186 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.90 in November 2025 to 7.49, a 24% improvement. Ruicheng has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

7×7
best event — top 0.34% of 14,226 all-time
1:54.56
signature single · Hefei August Open 2026
186
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
7×71:54.562:09.50
top 0.34%6 / 1,261
6×61:21.041:28.59
top 0.73%13 / 1,349
5×550.4754.85
top 1.9%79 / 2,816
3×37.4910.22
top 2.0%698 / 28,153
4×428.8632.39
top 2.2%208 / 5,926
3×3 one-handed14.2620.03
top 6.6%639 / 5,922
2×22.753.85
top 11.5%1,764 / 15,796
Pyraminx5.199.70
top 14.4%1,701 / 10,224
Skewb4.586.41
top 15.1%925 / 5,004

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

Xuzhou Open 2025: 9.90Hangzhou Winter 2025: 9.09Wuhu Open 2026: 7.49Shanghai Summer 2026: 8.477.499.9016 Nov 20251 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-1:00 6×6 single — 2 people have one; it is 21.04 away.
  • A sub-50 5×5 single — 713 people have one; it is 0.47 away.

Targets move as he improves.