People · China
Shawn Li
3×3 · top 5.0% of 288,433 all-time · competing since August 2022 · 2022LISH01
Shawn Li has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.03, set at TJHSST Spring 2025, puts him in the top 5.0% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,920th in China. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since August 2022, he has put 212 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 66% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.13 in August 2022 to 9.03, a 36% improvement. Shawn has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% 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 | 9.03 | 11.57 | top 5.0% | 1,920 / 28,499 | |
| 4×4 | 39.86 | 47.35 | top 12.0% | 1,314 / 5,999 | |
| 2×2 | 3.19 | 4.20 | top 16.6% | 2,702 / 15,939 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 21.85 | 24.82 | top 25.7% | 2,561 / 5,994 | |
| Square-1 | 19.32 | 23.35 | top 26.4% | 454 / 1,373 | |
| 5×5 | 1:35.36 | 1:51.28 | top 31.9% | 1,467 / 2,857 | |
| Pyraminx | 7.71 | 9.39 | top 33.8% | 3,749 / 10,269 | |
| Megaminx | 2:57.64 | — | early days — 1 solve | 1,574 / 1,693 | |
| Skewb | 15.49 | 19.45 | top 79.9% | 4,105 / 5,030 | |
| 7×7 | 7:00.57 | — | early days — 1 solve | 1,193 / 1,274 |
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
- 3 Feb 2024First sub-10 3×3: 9.79 at NoVa Cube Winter 2024.
- 13 Aug 2022First competition: Silver Spring Summer 2022. A 14.18 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- TJHSST Spring 2025 · 7 Jun 2025 — 1 personal best set
- UMBC Fall 2024 · 21 Sep 2024
- Cubing at Carson 2024 · 4 May 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Slow N Steady Spring 2024 · 13 Apr 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- UMBC Winter 2024 · 2 Mar 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Cubing in the Lion's Den 2024 · 10 Feb 2024
- NoVa Cube Winter 2024 · 3 Feb 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Potomac Spring 2023 · 1 Apr 2023
- Crystal City Fall 2022 · 3 Dec 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Silver Spring Summer 2022 · 13 Aug 2022 — 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.
- Brad Hoffman — met in 38 rounds, finished ahead 10 times
- Rich Tayag — met in 37 rounds, finished ahead 31 times
- Hassan Khanani — met in 36 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 1.03 away.
- A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,465 people have one; it is 9.86 away.
Targets move as he improves.