People · China
Tao You (游涛)
3×3 · top 1.0% of 288,433 all-time · competing since May 2016 · 2016YOUT01
Tao You (游涛) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.69, set at Xi'an Autumn 2025, puts him in the top 1.0% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 387th in China. Until January 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since May 2016, he has put 457 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 67% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.47 in May 2016 to 6.69, a 42% improvement. Tao has entered 19 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 6.69 | 8.97 | top 1.0% | 387 / 28,499 | |
| 4×4 | 30.29 | 33.54 | top 3.0% | 306 / 5,999 | |
| 2×2 | 2.80 | 5.68 | top 12.1% | 1,897 / 15,939 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 18.47 | 21.86 | top 16.4% | 1,647 / 5,994 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 2:42.57 | — | top 47.3% | 670 / 1,184 |
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
- 8 Dec 2018Four personal bests in one day at Chongqing Open 2018.
- 29 Apr 2018Three personal bests in one day at Chengdu Open 2018.
- 30 Dec 2017First sub-10 3×3: 9.65 at Chongqing Open 2017.
- 30 Dec 2017Three personal bests in one day at Chongqing Open 2017.
- 28 May 2016First competition: One Night in Beijing 2016. A 11.47 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Guilin Open 2026 · 18 Oct 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Xi'an Autumn 2025 · 2 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Xi'an Summer 2025 · 19 Jul 2025
- Chongqing New Year 2025 · 12 Jan 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Chengdu Summer 2024 · 20 Jul 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Chongqing Open 2023 · 18 Nov 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Chengdu Flash Cube Open 2023 · 15 Oct 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Chengdu New Year Morning 2021 · 3 Jan 2021 — 1 personal best set
- Chengdu Winter 2019 · 9 Nov 2019
- Guiyang Open 2019 · 1 May 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2019 · 13 Apr 2019
- Chongqing Open 2018 · 8 Dec 2018 — 4 personal bests set
- Chengdu Winter Open 2018 · 24 Nov 2018
- Yunnan Open 2018 · 6 Oct 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- Chengdu Open 2018 · 29 Apr 2018 — 3 personal bests set
- Xi'an New Year 2018 · 1 Jan 2018 — 1 personal best set
- Chongqing Open 2017 · 30 Dec 2017 — 3 personal bests set
- Hefei Open 2017 · 5 Oct 2017 — 1 personal best set
- One Night in Beijing 2016 · 28 May 2016
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.
- Jiazhou Li (李佳洲) — met in 57 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
- Gang Ji (纪纲) — met in 43 rounds, finished ahead 26 times
- Heng Wu (吴恒) — met in 42 rounds, finished ahead 10 times · head to head
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.69 away.
- A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,465 people have one; it is 0.29 away.
Targets move as he improves.