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Xiaoying Hu (胡笑颖)

3×3 · top 8.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2021 · 2021HUXI02

Xiaoying Hu (胡笑颖) has been competing for 5 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.30, set at Beijing Autumn Begins 2026, puts her in the top 8.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,280th in China. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since April 2021, she has put 40 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 31.07 in April 2021 to 10.30, a 67% improvement. Xiaoying has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.4% of 284,439 all-time
10.30
signature single · Beijing Autumn Begins 2026
40
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×310.3012.44
top 8.4%3,280 / 28,153
2×22.935.19
top 13.4%2,096 / 15,796
Clock14.9418.10
top 47.7%1,126 / 1,843

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

Beijing Spring PM 2021: 31.07Beijing University Cube League 2025: 11.03Beijing Only 3x3 2025: 12.03Beijing Spring Open 2026: 12.52Beijing Autumn Begins 2026: 10.3010.3031.074 Apr 202122 Aug 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.30 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.93 away.

Targets move as she improves.