People · China
Tianran Li (李天然)
3×3 one-handed · top 1.3% of 74,621 all-time · competing since December 2023 · 2023LITI02
Tianran Li (李天然) has been competing for 3 years. Her best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 10.26, set at Guangzhou Small Cubes 2025, puts her in the top 1.3% of the 74,621 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 115th in China. Until December 2011, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since December 2023, she has put 170 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 18% around a typical one; 98% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 one-handed best has come down from 16.37 in December 2023 to 10.26, a 37% improvement. Tianran has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% 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 one-handed | 10.26 | 13.11 | top 1.3% | 115 / 5,994 | |
| Megaminx | 42.61 | 53.02 | top 2.3% | 44 / 1,693 | |
| 3×3 | 8.22 | 9.60 | top 3.2% | 1,209 / 28,499 |
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 one-handed. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 22 Jun 2024First sub-10 3×3: 8.71 at Shenzhen Nanshan Open 2024.
- 24 Dec 2023First competition: Shenzhen Open 2023. A 10.77 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Guangzhou Grand Open 2026 · 5 Oct 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Guangdong Open - Revival & Rival 2026 · 6 Feb 2026
- Guangzhou Small Cubes 2025 · 9 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Guangzhou Special 2025 · 8 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Kewbz Scottish Championship 2025 · 30 May 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Edinburgh Winter 2025 · 11 Jan 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Shenzhen Nanshan Open 2024 · 22 Jun 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Guangzhou Special 2024 · 2 Jun 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Shenzhen Open 2023 · 24 Dec 2023
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 her.
- Zijian Cai (蔡子健) — met in 23 rounds, never finished ahead
- Yueshan Yang (杨悦山) — met in 18 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
- Ruohan Qiu (邱若寒) — met in 18 rounds, finished ahead twice
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 one-handed single — 800 people have one; it is 0.26 away.
- A sub-40 Megaminx single — 567 people have one; it is 2.61 away.
Targets move as she improves.