People · China
Weizhong Qiu (邱炜中)
3×3 · top 6.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2025 · 2025QIUW01
Weizhong Qiu (邱炜中) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.66, set at Beijing Winter 2026, puts him in the top 6.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,531st in China. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since January 2025, he has put 113 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.97 in January 2025 to 9.66, a 19% improvement. Weizhong has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% 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 | 9.66 | 11.78 | top 6.5% | 2,531 / 28,153 | |
| 4×4 | 36.16 | 41.60 | top 7.8% | 808 / 5,926 | |
| 5×5 | 1:12.93 | 1:19.35 | top 13.7% | 676 / 2,816 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 20.66 | 24.38 | top 22.3% | 2,226 / 5,922 | |
| 2×2 | 3.71 | 4.95 | top 22.8% | 3,775 / 15,796 | |
| 7×7 | 4:04.61 | 4:15.77 | early days — 3 solves | 634 / 1,261 | |
| 6×6 | 2:54.25 | 3:01.49 | early days — 3 solves | 776 / 1,349 |
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
- 10 Jan 2026Four personal bests in one day at Beijing Winter 2026.
- 17 May 2025First sub-10 3×3: 9.81 at Beijing Summer 2025.
- 4 Jan 2025First competition: Beijing Winter 2025. A 11.97 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Start of Summer Beijing 2026 · 1 May 2026
- Beijing Spring Open 2026 · 28 Mar 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Beijing Winter 2026 · 10 Jan 2026 — 4 personal bests set
- Beijing Only 3x3 2025 · 23 Nov 2025
- Beijing Summer 2025 · 17 May 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Beijing Spring Open 2025 · 20 Apr 2025
- Beijing Winter 2025 · 4 Jan 2025
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.
- Junze Huang (黄俊泽) — met in 21 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Yichen Ye (叶逸晨) — met in 20 rounds, finished ahead 9 times
- Yiqin Sun (孙弋钦) — met in 20 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.66 away.
- A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 6.16 away.
Targets move as he improves.