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Ryan Xiao

3×3 · top 7.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2022 · 2022XIAO03

Ryan Xiao has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.09, set at Canada's Best in the West 2024, puts him in the top 7.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 719th in Canada. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since May 2022, he has put 319 official solves on the record across twelve 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 16.55 in May 2022 to 10.09, a 39% improvement. Ryan has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.7% of 284,439 all-time
10.09
signature single · Canada's Best in the West 2024
319
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×310.0913.15
top 7.7%719 / 10,392
2×22.934.09
top 13.4%901 / 7,173
3×3 one-handed21.5929.12
top 24.8%540 / 2,620
Skewb6.7210.90
top 31.4%775 / 2,907
4×457.961:02.40
top 34.3%914 / 3,118
Clock11.8914.10
top 34.4%306 / 1,029
Pyraminx8.7712.29
top 42.8%1,994 / 4,858
5×51:53.872:02.78
top 45.3%577 / 1,499
Megaminx2:05.192:30.73
top 48.7%553 / 1,375
6×63:51.924:46.73
top 62.8%358 / 665
3×3 Fewest Moves49 moves53.33
top 76.8%229 / 283
7×77:25.91
top 84.0%402 / 503

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

BC Cubing Springback A 2022: 16.55Cloverdale Open 2022: 12.89Richmond Open Summer A 2022: 12.71SnoCo NxN 2022: 10.84UBC Odd Weekend 2022: 12.74Richmond Favourites 2023: 11.67Sleepless in Seattle 2023: 12.76Cubing on Par B 2023: 10.80Canadian Championship 2023: 11.72Canada's Best in the West 2024: 10.09Vancouver Newcomers Morning 2024: 14.1110.0916.5522 May 202216 Mar 2024

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.09 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.93 away.

Targets move as he improves.