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Ruihang Xu (许瑞航)

3×3 · top 0.0018% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2017 · 2017XURU04

Ruihang Xu (许瑞航) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 3.24, set at Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2024, puts him in the top 0.0018% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3rd in China. Until June 2023, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 57 competitions since August 2017, he has put 2,608 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.47 in August 2017 to 3.24, a 79% improvement. Ruihang has entered 57 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.0018% of 284,439 all-time
3.24
signature single · Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2024
2,608
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 57% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×33.244.65
top 0.0018%3 / 28,153
4×417.8920.23
top 0.014%3 / 5,926
5×535.2341.16
top 0.029%2 / 2,816
3×3 one-handed6.758.70
top 0.046%5 / 5,922
2×20.761.36
top 0.18%20 / 15,796
Megaminx32.7537.38
top 0.43%7 / 1,678
Pyraminx1.562.23
top 0.5%52 / 10,224
Skewb2.533.71
top 3.0%158 / 5,004
6×61:48.791:51.75
top 6.7%153 / 1,349

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

Yangzhou Open 2017: 15.47HDU Open 2017: 10.77Jinhua New Year's Day 2018: 11.49Kunshan Open 2018: 9.13Lishui University Open 2018: 7.84Nanchang Medium & Small Cubes 2018: 7.82Hefei Summer 2018: 7.62China Championship 2018: 7.15Fuzhou Open 2018: 7.81Wenzhou Open 2018: 7.21Fuzhou Spring 2019: 7.17Wuhan Open 2019: 7.48Hangzhou Open 2019: 6.61Huzhou Open 2019: 6.16China Championship 2019: 6.41Suzhou Open 2019: 6.77Shenzhen Cubing 10th Anniversary 2019: 5.43Shandong Open 2019: 5.93Hangzhou Autumn 2019: 5.85Shaoxing Open 2019: 6.72 Shenzhen Good Afternoon 2020: 4.84Guangzhou Good Afternoon 2020: 5.92Nanchang Good Afternoon 2021: 5.00Guangzhou Panyu Morning 2021: 4.45Shaoxing Morning 2021: 5.67Beijing Spring PM 2021: 4.98Hangzhou Open AM 2021: 4.65Guangdong Open 2021: 4.58Wuhan Open 2021: 4.06Singapore Championship 2023: 4.71Hong Kong Cube Day 2023: 4.17Hong Kong Small Cube Day 2023: 4.43Vietnam Championship 2023: 4.01Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 4.25Hefei Winter Open 2023: 4.60Huzhou Open 2024: 4.09Chengdu Summer 2024: 4.61Xi'an Open 2024: 4.23Korean Championship 2024: 4.00Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2024: 3.24Hangzhou Open 2024: 4.05Chengdu Spring Open 2025: 4.03Nanchang Spring 2025: 4.81Lishui Open 2025: 4.23Taizhou Open 2025: 4.32Singapore Independence Day 2025: 4.41Vietnam Championship 2025: 4.24Beijing University Cube League 2025: 4.59Nanchang Winter 2025: 4.40Hangzhou Winter 2025: 4.56Guangdong Open - Revival & Rival 2026: 3.35Start of Summer Beijing 2026: 4.20Nanchang Summer 2026: 3.81Wuhu Open 2026: 3.97Guangzhou GraDUAL 3x3 I 2026: 4.483.2415.4720 Aug 20175 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-3 3×3 single — 3 people have one; it is 0.24 away.
  • A sub-30 5×5 single — 1 people have one; it is 5.23 away.

Targets move as he improves.