People · United States
Steven Chau
3×3 · top 1.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2019 · 2019CHAU06
Steven Chau has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.94, set at CubingUSA Southern Championship 2022, puts him in the top 1.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 768th in the United States. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since March 2019, he has put 231 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 88% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.13 in March 2019 to 6.94, a 24% improvement. Steven 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 | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 6.94 | 8.73 | top 1.3% | 768 / 59,724 | |
| 4×4 | 47.61 | 58.64 | top 21.6% | 3,280 / 19,072 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 20.62 | 25.45 | top 22.2% | 2,853 / 15,683 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 1:35.95 | — | top 25.2% | 518 / 2,092 | |
| 2×2 | 4.55 | 5.37 | top 33.6% | 13,363 / 40,951 | |
| 5×5 | 1:45.13 | 1:57.61 | top 39.3% | 3,156 / 9,401 | |
| Megaminx | 1:57.89 | 2:14.07 | top 44.6% | 3,263 / 7,841 | |
| 3×3 Fewest Moves | 40 moves | 45.00 | early days — 3 solves | 1,031 / 2,040 | |
| 6×6 | 3:52.39 | 4:27.38 | top 62.9% | 2,437 / 4,196 | |
| Pyraminx | 11.39 | 29.60 | top 63.3% | 18,640 / 28,708 | |
| Skewb | 11.51 | 20.49 | top 63.6% | 11,788 / 18,907 | |
| 7×7 | 7:06.66 | 7:37.44 | early days — 3 solves | 2,554 / 3,184 |
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
- 6 Jul 2019Three personal bests in one day at Everything's Bigger in Texas 2019.
- 16 Mar 2019First competition: Katy Cubing 2019. A 9.30 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Space City Fall TX 2025 · 19 Oct 2025
- Space City Winter TX 2025 · 4 Jan 2025
- Cube Against Cancer Texas 2024 · 2 Mar 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Space City Winter 2024 · 6 Jan 2024
- Space City Summer 2023 · 8 Jul 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Cubing For Water Winter 2023 · 7 Jan 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Houston Fall 2022 · 5 Nov 2022
- CubingUSA Southern Championship 2022 · 29 Jul 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Everything's Bigger in Texas 2019 · 6 Jul 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- Katy Cubing 2019 · 16 Mar 2019 — 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.
- George Fan — met in 33 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
- Justin Zhou — met in 33 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
- Riley Norrid — met in 33 rounds, finished ahead twice
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.94 away.
- A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 7.61 away.
Targets move as he improves.