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Shaoang Wu (吴少昂)

3×3 · top 0.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2025 · 2025WUSH04

Shaoang Wu (吴少昂) has been competing for 9 months. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.85, set at Yancheng Spring Open 2026, puts him in the top 0.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 156th in China. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since November 2025, he has put 169 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 77% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 7.15 in November 2025 to 5.85, an 18% improvement. Shaoang has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.4% of 284,439 all-time
5.85
signature single · Yancheng Spring Open 2026
169
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 77% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×35.857.36
top 0.4%156 / 28,153
4×432.5734.91
top 4.6%455 / 5,926
2×22.193.30
top 6.1%861 / 15,796
3×3 one-handed18.9022.65
top 17.5%1,732 / 5,922

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

Hangzhou Winter 2025: 7.15Xianju NxN 2026: 6.96Yancheng Spring Open 2026: 5.85Deqing Small & Special 2026: 7.05Hangzhou Open 2026: 6.30Shanghai Summer 2026: 7.515.857.5129 Nov 20251 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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.85 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 2.57 away.

Targets move as he improves.