People · China
Ruiqi Tang (汤睿淇)
3×3 · top 3.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2021 · 2021TANG02
Ruiqi Tang (汤睿淇) has been competing for 6 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.28, set at Valsugana Speedcubing 2023, puts her in the top 3.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,229th in China. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since January 2021, she has put 97 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 28.19 in January 2021 to 8.28, a 71% improvement. Ruiqi has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% 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 | 8.28 | 9.68 | top 3.3% | 1,229 / 28,153 | |
| Pyraminx | 3.01 | 8.21 | top 3.7% | 441 / 10,224 | |
| 2×2 | 3.09 | 3.84 | top 15.3% | 2,436 / 15,796 | |
| Skewb | 11.63 | 12.80 | top 64.2% | 3,463 / 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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 22 Apr 2023First sub-15 3×3: 8.94 at Valsugana Speedcubing 2023.
- 22 Apr 2023First sub-10 3×3: 8.94 at Valsugana Speedcubing 2023.
- 22 Apr 2023Three personal bests in one day at Valsugana Speedcubing 2023.
- 11 Apr 2021First sub-20 3×3: 17.20 at Xi'an Cherry Blossom PM 2021.
- 3 Jan 2021First competition: Chengdu New Year Afternoon 2021. A 28.19 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Xi'an Open 2024 · 3 Aug 2024
- Chengdu Flash Cube Open 2023 · 15 Oct 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023 · 12 Aug 2023
- Valsugana Speedcubing 2023 · 22 Apr 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Guangdong Open 2021 · 1 May 2021 — 1 personal best set
- Xi'an Cherry Blossom PM 2021 · 11 Apr 2021 — 1 personal best set
- Chengdu New Year Afternoon 2021 · 3 Jan 2021
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 her.
- Jiazhou Li (李佳洲) — met in 11 rounds, never finished ahead
- Matteo Provasi — met in 10 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
- Simone Cantarelli — met in 10 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.28 away.
- A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.01 away.
Targets move as she improves.