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Ximiao Liu (刘曦淼)

3×3 · top 5.1% of 288,433 all-time · competing since May 2008 · 2008LIUX01

Ximiao Liu (刘曦淼) has been competing for 18 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.07, set at Beijing Winter 2026, puts her in the top 5.1% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,967th in China. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 37 competitions since May 2008, she has put 586 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 62% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 38.30 in May 2008 to 9.07, a 76% improvement. Ximiao has entered 37 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.1% of 288,433 all-time
9.07
signature single · Beijing Winter 2026
586
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 62% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×39.0711.17
top 5.1%1,967 / 28,499
Megaminx59.411:08.91
top 9.8%262 / 1,693
4×438.3442.61
top 10.2%1,106 / 5,999
2×23.244.92
top 17.1%2,800 / 15,939
3×3 one-handed19.7823.27
top 20.0%2,032 / 5,994
Clock10.4912.27
top 27.4%661 / 1,887
5×51:33.381:50.39
top 30.2%1,391 / 2,857
Skewb10.6712.06
top 59.0%3,262 / 5,030

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 Open 2008: 38.30Beijing Fall Open 2008: 15.12Shijiazhuang Open 2009: 17.02Beijing Metropolis Open 2009: 14.58Duanwu Festival Open 2009: 16.78Beijing Summer Open 2009: 14.44Inner Mongolia 2010: 15.18Beijing Mangshan National Forest Park Open 2010: 16.83One-to-eight Cubes Competition 2011: 14.42Beijing Summer Open 2011: 13.75Beijing Open 2017: 14.37Beijing Ten Years Open 2017: 12.60Beijing Open 2018: 11.64Fujian Championship 2018: 11.91Shijiazhuang Open 2018: 12.43Tianjin Summer Open 2018: 11.93Beijing Summer 2018: 12.79China Championship 2018: 13.11Beijing Winter 2018: 12.20Weihai Open 2019: 11.49Guiyang Open 2019: 11.62Beijing Summer 2019: 10.99Chengdu New Year Morning 2021: 11.68Beijing Spring AM 2021: 11.86Luoyang Spring 2024: 10.06Shenyang Spring 2024: 9.38Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2024: 10.25Cool Down Singapore 2024: 11.47Zhengzhou Open 2024: 10.49Beijing Winter 2025: 10.49Weihai Open 2025: 9.92Beijing Only 3x3 2025: 9.35Beijing Winter 2026: 9.07Start of Summer Beijing 2026: 10.02Beijing Autumn Begins 2026: 10.80Beijing Autumn Rivalry 2026: 10.939.0738.302 May 20081 Oct 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-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 1.07 away.
  • A sub-50 Megaminx single — 1,829 people have one; it is 9.41 away.

Targets move as she improves.