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Xi Deng (邓熙)

3×3 · top 6.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2017 · 2017DENG04

Xi Deng (邓熙) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.77, set at Shenzhen Open 2024, puts him in the top 6.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,656th in China. Until October 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since March 2017, he has put 283 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 32.26 in March 2017 to 9.77, a 70% improvement. Xi has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.8% of 284,439 all-time
9.77
signature single · Shenzhen Open 2024
283
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×39.7711.44
top 6.8%2,656 / 28,153
Pyraminx4.016.50
top 7.7%910 / 10,224
2×22.604.92
top 9.9%1,495 / 15,796
4×41:10.22
top 47.1%4,338 / 5,926

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

GDSY Open 2017: 32.26China Championship 2017: 26.16Shantou Open 2017: 24.95China's 10th Anniversary Championship 2017: 24.32Shenzhen Open 2017: 24.76Dongguan Open 2018: 18.01GDSY Open 2018: 20.60Guangdong Open 2018: 20.85WCA Asian Championship 2018: 17.52Dongguan Open 2019: 15.14Shenzhen 3x3 Days 2019: 15.09Dongguan Spring 2019: 13.69China Championship 2019: 13.51Shenzhen Open 2019: 13.96Shenzhen Good Morning 2020: 11.41Shenzhen Good Morning 2021: 11.35Shenzhen Open 2024: 9.779.7732.2626 Mar 20177 Dec 2024

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.77 away.
  • A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.01 away.

Targets move as he improves.