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Tianze Xu (徐天泽)

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 0.04% of 12,418 all-time · competing since October 2015 · 2015XUTI01

Tianze Xu (徐天泽) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 17 moves, set at More Than One Cube Shanghai 2026, puts him in the top 0.04% of the 12,418 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in China. Across 44 competitions since October 2015, he has put 1,196 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 60% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.78 in October 2015 to 6.34, a 50% improvement. Tianze has entered 44 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 0.04% of 12,418 all-time
17 moves
signature single · More Than One Cube Shanghai 2026
1,196
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×3 Fewest Moves17 moves22.00
top 0.04%1 / 1,071
3×36.348.76
top 0.72%273 / 28,499
Skewb1.792.98
top 0.9%39 / 5,030
4×425.8431.17
top 0.96%95 / 5,999
5×549.9455.86
top 1.8%75 / 2,857
3×3 one-handed11.7714.29
top 2.7%242 / 5,994
6×61:41.421:49.78
top 4.5%91 / 1,363
2×22.003.55
top 4.8%671 / 15,939
Pyraminx3.395.22
top 5.0%617 / 10,269
7×72:45.722:56.34
top 6.8%142 / 1,274
Megaminx56.841:06.12
top 8.4%212 / 1,693
Square-111.3217.33
top 8.6%129 / 1,373
Clock11.9012.33
top 34.4%846 / 1,887

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

China Championship 2015: 12.78Dongguan Open 2016: 13.93Guangzhou Rubik's Cube Days 2016: 11.48Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2016: 11.38Dongguan Open 2017: 10.29GDSY Open 2017: 9.67Guangzhou SCUT 2017: 9.03Xuzhou Open 2018: 9.41Meizhou Open 2019: 9.28Nanjing Autumn 2019: 8.68Jieyang Good Afternoon 2021: 8.49Guangzhou Panyu Afternoon 2021: 7.65Shaoxing Afternoon 2021: 7.57Hangzhou Open PM 2021: 8.50Welcome Back Hong Kong 2024: 8.31Cube Camp in Nakhon Nayok 2024: 8.03Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2024: 9.05Cube Camp in Suan Phueng 2025: 7.06Guangzhou Small Cubes 2025: 8.16Guangdong Open - Revival & Rival 2026: 8.03Foshan Open 2026: 7.80Zhanjiang Open 2026: 9.21Guangzhou GraDUAL 3x3 III 2026: 7.33Guangzhou GraDUAL 3x3 IV 2026: 6.346.3413.932 Oct 201516 Sep 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-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.34 away.
  • A sub-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.79 away.

Targets move as he improves.