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Xiuhe Lü (吕修赫)

3×3 · top 3.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2019 · 2019LUXI04

Xiuhe Lü (吕修赫) has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.28, set at Weihai Open 2025, puts him in the top 3.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,229th in China. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 2 competitions since October 2019, he has put 64 official solves on the record across five events. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.80 in October 2019 to 8.28, a 40% improvement. Xiuhe has entered two competitions.

3×3
best event — top 3.3% of 284,439 all-time
8.28
signature single · Weihai Open 2025
64
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×38.2811.54
top 3.3%1,229 / 28,153
2×22.423.88
top 8.1%1,192 / 15,796
4×440.7848.77
top 13.0%1,412 / 5,926
3×3 one-handed19.4520.81
top 19.1%1,913 / 5,922
5×52:03.06
early days — 2 solves2,119 / 2,816

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

Shandong Open 2019: 13.80Weihai Open 2025: 8.288.2813.804 Oct 20199 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.28 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.42 away.

Targets move as he improves.