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Xinrui Li (李昕蕊)

3×3 · top 5.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2011 · 2011LIXI02

Xinrui Li (李昕蕊) has been competing for 15 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.44, set at Beijing Spring PM 2021, puts her in the top 5.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,294th in China. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 39 competitions since April 2011, she has put 468 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 82% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 16.25 in April 2011 to 9.44, a 42% improvement. Xinrui has entered 39 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.9% of 284,439 all-time
9.44
signature single · Beijing Spring PM 2021
468
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 82% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×39.4410.61
top 5.9%2,294 / 28,153
Megaminx54.701:03.29
top 7.3%172 / 1,678
4×446.3854.03
top 20.0%2,161 / 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

Beijing Spring 2011: 16.25Taiyuan 2011: 14.68Human Rights Day 2011: 13.58Tianjin Winter 2012: 14.69BUAA Open 2013: 13.55Yingkou Open 2013: 13.46Beijing Summer 2013: 13.48Dalian Open 2013: 11.53TUT 2013: 12.69Beijing Winter Open 2013: 13.50Beijing Spring 2014: 11.76Beijing Summer Open 2014: 13.12Beijing Autumn 2014: 12.65Tianjin University Open 2015: 10.45China Championship 2015: 11.01Shantou Open 2016: 10.68Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2016: 11.72Asian Championship 2016: 11.96Hong Kong Cube Day 2017: 12.25Guangzhou SCUT 2017: 11.36Beijing Open 2017: 11.66Beijing Ten Years Open 2017: 11.07Beijing Open 2018: 9.70Tangshan Open 2018: 12.36Linfen Open 2018: 9.59Beijing Summer 2018: 11.85Beijing Winter 2018: 11.71Beijing Summer 2019: 11.43China Championship 2019: 10.02Shanghai Open 2019: 11.27Beijing Winter 2019: 11.83Guangzhou Good Afternoon 2020: 10.12Beijing Spring PM 2021: 9.44Hangzhou Open PM 2021: 10.07Guangdong Open 2021: 10.89Tianjin Summer Solstice 2021: 10.36Xuzhou Open 2025: 9.93Beijing Only 3x3 2025: 9.939.4416.2523 Apr 201123 Nov 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.44 away.
  • A sub-50 Megaminx single — 1,776 people have one; it is 4.70 away.

Targets move as she improves.