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Tristan Lei

2×2 · top 2.7% of 186,767 all-time · competing since May 2022 · 2022LEIT05

Tristan Lei has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.63, set at Pickering Favourites Fall 2023, puts him in the top 2.7% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 178th in Canada. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 24 competitions since May 2022, he has put 476 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 65% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.03 in May 2022 to 8.80, a 48% improvement. Tristan has entered 24 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 2.7% of 186,767 all-time
1.63
signature single · Pickering Favourites Fall 2023
476
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 65% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
2×21.633.64
top 2.7%178 / 7,173
3×38.8011.88
top 4.4%426 / 10,392
Pyraminx3.375.72
top 5.0%178 / 4,858
Skewb3.106.44
top 5.5%93 / 2,907
4×447.8654.95
top 21.9%561 / 3,118
Square-118.2723.04
top 24.0%199 / 952
3×3 one-handed27.9329.88
top 41.8%943 / 2,620
5×52:15.112:22.10
top 58.2%767 / 1,499
Clock24.82—
early days — 2 solves774 / 1,029
Megaminx3:12.60—
top 78.5%992 / 1,375

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

3x3x3 Only Hamilton B 2022: 17.03Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 15.31Battle of Waterloo 2022: 20.40Richmond Hill 2022: 14.91Oakville Fall B 2022: 12.95Appleby Winter A 2023: 13.79Waterloo Favourites A 2023: 12.92Pickering B 2023: 13.41Markham 3x3x3 Afternoon 2023: 12.65Guelph 2023: 13.62Southern Ontario Summer - Oshawa 2023: 11.11Appleby Summer A 2023: 10.44Ajax 3x3x3 Afternoon 2023: 10.73Appleby Fall B 2023: 12.59Pickering Favourites Fall 2023: 11.91Pickering Fall B 2023: 11.27Scarborough Fall A 2023: 9.52Greater Toronto 2024: 11.72Ajax 3x3x3 Newcomers B 2024: 8.80Thornhill Spring 2024: 9.00Appleby Summer 2024: 10.39Pickering Favourites Autumn 2024: 10.75Pickering NxNxN Summer 2025: 11.498.8020.4029 May 202221 Jun 2025

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.

  • Ryan Wu — met in 67 rounds, finished ahead once
  • Max Kaloshi — met in 61 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
  • Ian Wei — met in 56 rounds, finished ahead 11 times

Next targets

  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.63 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.80 away.

Targets move as he improves.