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Tim Xie

2×2 · top 0.1% of 186,767 all-time · competing since September 2015 · 2015XIET01

Tim Xie has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.68, set at Techweek NZ 2017, puts him in the top 0.1% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 8th in New Zealand. Until June 2015, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 59 competitions since September 2015, he has put 1,802 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 62% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 36.34 in September 2015 to 8.41, a 77% improvement. Tim has entered 59 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.1% of 186,767 all-time
0.68
signature single · Techweek NZ 2017
1,802
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 62% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNew Zealand
2×20.681.78
top 0.1%8 / 1,615
Square-16.309.56
top 1.0%3 / 251
3×38.4110.18
top 3.6%106 / 2,095
Pyraminx5.136.66
top 14.0%198 / 1,141
Skewb4.947.75
top 17.7%142 / 666
3×3 one-handed21.1025.22
top 23.5%136 / 600
4×451.331:06.15
top 26.3%178 / 722
3×3 Fewest Moves41 moves46.33
top 51.8%75 / 111
Megaminx2:45.383:08.47
top 68.3%216 / 283
Clock22.28—
early days — 3 solves241 / 303
5×54:11.98—
early days — 2 solves328 / 355

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

Hamilton Spring 2015: 36.34New Zealand Nationals 2015: 23.68Wellington Autumn 2016: 16.02Hamilton Winter 2016: 15.00Palmerston North 2016: 15.21Great South Open 2016: 13.85New Zealand Nationals 2016: 13.69SNZ Southern 2017: 10.75Techweek NZ 2017: 11.30World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 11.65Supreme South Open 2017: 13.43Hamilton Spring 2017: 13.59New Zealand Nationals 2017: 12.18NxNZ Open 2018: 12.46SNZ Southern 2018: 12.10SNZ Northern 2018: 10.68Nanchang Medium & Small Cubes 2018: 9.93Auckland Spring 2018: 11.52Supreme South Open 2018: 8.41NxNZ 2019: 9.63Koalafication Melbourne 2019: 10.00Oceania 10th Anniversary 2019: 9.25WCA World Championship 2019: 9.59Otago October 2019: 8.45New Zealand Nationals 2019: 9.65Auckland Summer Open 2020: 10.33New Zealand Nationals 2020: 10.10A New Year in Auckland 2021: 10.18NZ South Island Championship 2021: 8.74Southern Scramble Dunedin 2021: 8.77NZ North Island Championship 2021: 8.63Popping Off Pukekohe A 2022: 9.01New Zealand Nationals 2022: 8.95Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2022: 8.44Auckland Autumn 2023: 9.30Auckland Mid-Year Madness 2023: 9.81Berkeley Summer 2023: 9.34Bay Area Speedcubin' 53 - Berkeley 2023: 8.84Berkeley Fall 2023: 9.31Berkeley Winter 2024: 9.51Bay Area Speedcubin' 58 - Berkeley 2024: 10.89Berkeley Weekday Tricubealon 2024: 10.61Berkeley Spring 2024: 9.83Berkeley Summer 2024: 10.17Bay Area Speedcubin' 65 - Berkeley 2024: 12.26Berkeley October Weekday Tricubealon 2024: 11.19Berkeley December Weekday Tricubealon 2024: 9.05A New Year in Auckland 2025: 10.04Berkeley Spring 2025: 9.48Berkeley March Weekday NxN 2025: 11.42Berkeley April Weekday Tricubealon 2025: 11.68Kailua Kupulau 2025: 9.68Berkeley August Weekday 2025: 11.09Berkeley September Weekday 2025: 9.54Berkeley January Weekday 2026: 9.72Berkeley Pre-Cal Day 2026: 10.098.4136.3427 Sep 201517 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-6 Square-1 single — 201 people have one; it is 0.30 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.41 away.

Targets move as he improves.