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Sicong Liu (刘思聪)

3×3 · top 1.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2024 · 2024LIUS02

Sicong Liu (刘思聪) has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.14, set at Xuzhou Newcomers 2025, puts him in the top 1.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 532nd in China. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since May 2024, he has put 145 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 52% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.17 in May 2024 to 7.14, a 22% improvement. Sicong has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.5% of 284,439 all-time
7.14
signature single · Xuzhou Newcomers 2025
145
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 52% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×37.1410.58
top 1.5%532 / 28,153
2×22.855.01
top 12.6%1,967 / 15,796
Pyraminx5.127.40
top 13.9%1,653 / 10,224
Skewb5.579.48
top 22.5%1,406 / 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

Zibo Open 2024: 9.17Xuzhou Autumn 2024: 8.47Xuzhou Newcomers 2025: 7.14Yancheng Open 2025: 9.81Xuzhou Open 2025: 9.03Yancheng Spring Open 2026: 9.427.149.8119 May 202429 Mar 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.14 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.85 away.

Targets move as he improves.