People · China
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.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 10.06 | 11.57 | 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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 18 Mar 2023First competition: InTents Cubing Anza-Borrego 2023. A 13.15 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- UCSD TritoNxN 2026 · 4 Apr 2026
- UCLA Spring 2026 · 15 Feb 2026
- Agoura Winter 2026 · 24 Jan 2026
- UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025 · 24 Aug 2025
- UCLA Summer 2025 · 20 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Santa Barbara Winter 2025 · 4 Jan 2025
- Nub Open Lake Forest 2024 · 15 Dec 2024
- CubeChella 2024 · 14 Dec 2024 — 1 personal best set
- UCSD Fall 2024 · 23 Nov 2024
- UCSB Cubing 2024 · 19 Oct 2024
- SacQuiet Fall 2024 · 15 Sep 2024
- SacCubing XVIII 2024 · 14 Sep 2024
- La La Land 2024 · 31 Aug 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Los Angeles Newcomers 2024 · 30 Mar 2024 — 1 personal best set
- InTents Cubing Anza-Borrego 2023 · 18 Mar 2023 — 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.
- Shane Grogan — met in 25 rounds, never finished ahead
- Matthew Dickman — met in 24 rounds, finished ahead 22 times
- Alex Lehman — met in 21 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.06 away.
Targets move as he improves.