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Tianshuo Shao

3×3 · top 7.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2023 · 2023SHAO01

Tianshuo Shao has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.06, set at UCLA Summer 2025, puts him in the top 7.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,977th in China. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since March 2023, he has put 135 official solves on the record across one event. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.42 in March 2023 to 10.06, a 12% improvement. Tianshuo has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.6% of 284,439 all-time
10.06
signature single · UCLA Summer 2025
135
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×310.0611.57
top 7.6%2,977 / 28,153

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

InTents Cubing Anza-Borrego 2023: 11.42Los Angeles Newcomers 2024: 10.88La La Land 2024: 10.56SacCubing XVIII 2024: 12.42UCSB Cubing 2024: 11.37UCSD Fall 2024: 11.10CubeChella 2024: 10.16Nub Open Lake Forest 2024: 10.54Santa Barbara Winter 2025: 10.62UCLA Summer 2025: 10.06UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025: 11.18Agoura Winter 2026: 10.10UCLA Spring 2026: 13.59UCSD TritoNxN 2026: 11.8710.0613.5918 Mar 20234 Apr 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.06 away.

Targets move as he improves.