People · China
Shang Liu (刘尚)
Megaminx · top 0.45% of 34,786 all-time · competing since March 2017 · 2017LIUS01
Shang Liu (刘尚) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the Megaminx: a personal-best single of 33.08, set at Chengdu Summer 2024, puts him in the top 0.45% of the 34,786 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 8th in China. Until May 2017, no official Megaminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since March 2017, he has put 682 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 64% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.89 in March 2017 to 7.62, a 49% improvement. Shang has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Megaminx | 33.08 | 36.41 | top 0.45% | 8 / 1,678 | |
| 3×3 | 7.62 | 9.11 | top 2.2% | 782 / 28,153 | |
| Pyraminx | 2.70 | 5.36 | top 2.7% | 318 / 10,224 | |
| 2×2 | 1.80 | 3.20 | top 3.6% | 474 / 15,796 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 14.16 | 16.15 | top 6.4% | 611 / 5,922 | |
| 4×4 | 36.13 | 39.45 | top 7.8% | 806 / 5,926 | |
| Skewb | 5.19 | 7.81 | top 19.6% | 1,216 / 5,004 | |
| 5×5 | 1:26.78 | 1:36.34 | top 24.7% | 1,158 / 2,816 | |
| Clock | 11.32 | 15.69 | top 31.7% | 751 / 1,843 | |
| Square-1 | 28.98 | 43.82 | top 47.5% | 811 / 1,362 | |
| 6×6 | 3:33.63 | 4:09.19 | early days — 3 solves | 1,039 / 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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 20 Jul 2024Five personal bests in one day at Chengdu Summer 2024.
- 4 Oct 2019Four personal bests in one day at Shandong Open 2019.
- 18 Aug 2019First sub-10 3×3: 9.90 at Ningxia Open 2019.
- 18 Aug 2019Five personal bests in one day at Ningxia Open 2019.
- 6 Apr 2019Three personal bests in one day at Weihai Open 2019.
- 3 Mar 2019Three personal bests in one day at Xianyang Open 2019.
Competitions
- Beijing Winter 2025 · 4 Jan 2025
- Chengdu Summer 2024 · 20 Jul 2024 — 5 personal bests set
- Beijing Spring AM 2021 · 4 Apr 2021 — 1 personal best set
- Beijing Spring Special 2021 · 3 Apr 2021 — 2 personal bests set
- Shandong Open 2019 · 4 Oct 2019 — 4 personal bests set
- Ningxia Open 2019 · 18 Aug 2019 — 5 personal bests set
- China Championship 2019 · 26 Jul 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Peking University Spring 2019 · 21 Apr 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Weihai Open 2019 · 6 Apr 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- Qingdao Spring 2019 · 31 Mar 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Xianyang Open 2019 · 3 Mar 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- China Championship 2018 · 2 Oct 2018 — 3 personal bests set
- Hefei Summer 2018 · 14 Jul 2018 — 4 personal bests set
- Xuzhou Open 2018 · 17 Jun 2018 — 3 personal bests set
- Weihai Open 2018 · 12 May 2018 — 3 personal bests set
- Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2018 · 6 Apr 2018 — 3 personal bests set
- Qingdao Prime Numbers 2017 · 26 Mar 2017 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Xingkai Yin (尹星凯) — met in 71 rounds, finished ahead 11 times
- Zhenyu Wang (王振宇) — met in 65 rounds, finished ahead 23 times
- Yuxuan Huang (黄宇轩) — met in 59 rounds, finished ahead 32 times
Next targets
- A sub-30 Megaminx single — 75 people have one; it is 3.08 away.
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.62 away.
Targets move as he improves.