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Thomas Liao

3×3 · top 0.47% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2017 · 2017LIAO09

Thomas Liao has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.98, set at Tramsheds IV: Summer Sunday 2025, puts him in the top 0.47% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 50th in Australia. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since June 2017, he has put 635 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.35 in June 2017 to 5.98, a 63% improvement. Thomas has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.47% of 284,439 all-time
5.98
signature single · Tramsheds IV: Summer Sunday 2025
635
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
3×35.987.49
top 0.47%50 / 11,709
4×425.5728.46
top 0.86%25 / 3,051
Square-16.247.28
top 0.96%12 / 899
3×3 one-handed10.2312.96
top 1.2%32 / 2,659
5×549.7555.09
top 1.7%20 / 1,356
2×21.531.90
top 2.3%186 / 8,567
6×61:40.051:58.59
top 4.1%26 / 641
Pyraminx3.305.75
top 4.7%207 / 5,993
Megaminx51.461:01.62
top 5.7%77 / 1,277
7×72:58.293:13.66
top 10.1%48 / 523
3×3 Fewest Moves30 moves33.67
top 14.8%73 / 468
Clock8.6611.39
top 18.3%205 / 1,095
Skewb5.896.84
top 24.9%659 / 3,534
3×3 blindfolded2:16.12—
top 38.6%168 / 394
3×3 Multi-Blind3 of 3 cubes · 20:23—
early days — 2 solves94 / 180

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

Sydney Winter 2017: 16.35Odd Day in Sydney 2018: 10.69Tramsheds Series Sunday 2022: 7.52NSW Open 2022: 7.20Sydney Summer 2023: 6.57Cubing at The Cube 2024: 7.07Tramsheds I: Newcomer Saturday 2024: 6.56Kogarah Cube Day Sunday 2024: 6.76Tramsheds III: August Sunday 2024: 6.67Sydney Spring Sunday 2024: 6.69Tramsheds IV: Summer Sunday 2025: 5.98NSW State Championship 2025: 6.795.9816.3517 Jun 201726 Apr 2025

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.

  • Sora Sato — met in 129 rounds, finished ahead 48 times
  • Bryan Eng — met in 106 rounds, finished ahead 15 times
  • Caleb Clark — met in 94 rounds, finished ahead 59 times

Next targets

  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.98 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 0.57 away.

Targets move as he improves.