People · China
Ruicheng Tao (陶睿成)
3×3 Fewest Moves · top 4.0% of 12,294 all-time · competing since March 2025 · 2025TAOR02
Ruicheng Tao (陶睿成) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 24 moves, set at More Than One Cube Shanghai 2026, puts him in the top 4.0% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 42nd in China. Across 10 competitions since March 2025, he has put 157 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. His 4×4 best has come down from 49.32 in July 2025 to 41.96, a 15% improvement. Ruicheng has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% 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 Fewest Moves | 24 moves | 34.33 | top 4.0% | 42 / 1,058 | |
| 3×3 | 10.89 | 13.66 | top 10.1% | 3,968 / 28,153 | |
| 7×7 | 3:04.94 | 3:22.81 | top 11.9% | 234 / 1,261 | |
| 5×5 | 1:12.13 | 1:18.75 | top 13.2% | 644 / 2,816 | |
| 4×4 | 41.96 | 44.88 | top 14.5% | 1,569 / 5,926 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 18.30 | 20.65 | top 15.9% | 1,570 / 5,922 | |
| 6×6 | 2:12.16 | 2:16.90 | top 16.4% | 364 / 1,349 | |
| 2×2 | 3.61 | 5.00 | top 21.6% | 3,556 / 15,796 | |
| Skewb | 7.17 | 12.14 | top 35.0% | 2,124 / 5,004 | |
| Pyraminx | 9.68 | 12.31 | top 50.5% | 5,305 / 10,224 |
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, 4×4. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 25 Apr 2026Three personal bests in one day at Deqing Big & Blind 2026.
- 16 Nov 2025Four personal bests in one day at Xuzhou Open 2025.
- 30 Mar 2025First competition: Xuzhou Newcomers 2025. A 14.54 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Hefei August Open 2026 · 15 Aug 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- More Than One Cube Shanghai 2026 · 6 Jun 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Deqing Big & Blind 2026 · 25 Apr 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- Yancheng Spring Open 2026 · 29 Mar 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Quanzhou Big Cubes 2026 · 1 Mar 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Guangdong Open - Revival & Rival 2026 · 6 Feb 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Xuzhou Open 2025 · 16 Nov 2025 — 4 personal bests set
- FMC Asia 2025 · 27 Jul 2025
- Taizhou Open 2025 · 26 Jul 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Xuzhou Newcomers 2025 · 30 Mar 2025
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.
- Yuzhe Gan (甘宇喆) — met in 29 rounds, never finished ahead
- Jiacheng Li (李家诚) — met in 25 rounds, finished ahead 12 times
- Xulang Li (黎旭朗) — met in 25 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.89 away.
- A sub-3:00 7×7 single — 1,507 people have one; it is 4.94 away.
Targets move as he improves.