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Xiwen Ruan (阮熙文)

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 0.04% of 12,418 all-time · competing since April 2018 · 2018RUAN04

Xiwen Ruan (阮熙文) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 17 moves, set at More Than One Cube Shanghai 2026, puts him in the top 0.04% of the 12,418 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in China. Across 30 competitions since April 2018, he has put 446 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 93% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.63 in April 2018 to 9.76, a 33% improvement. Xiwen has entered 30 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 0.04% of 12,418 all-time
17 moves
signature single · More Than One Cube Shanghai 2026
446
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 93% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×3 Fewest Moves17 moves22.67
top 0.04%1 / 1,071
5×555.671:02.71
top 3.6%174 / 2,857
4×433.1637.63
top 5.1%525 / 5,999
6×61:44.451:48.78
top 5.4%117 / 1,363
3×3 one-handed13.9716.17
top 6.1%595 / 5,994
3×39.7611.78
top 6.8%2,710 / 28,499
2×22.304.23
top 7.1%1,017 / 15,939
7×72:47.042:49.95
top 7.1%155 / 1,274
Pyraminx3.907.71
top 7.2%866 / 10,269
Skewb3.466.24
top 7.5%427 / 5,030
Megaminx1:00.551:08.92
top 10.4%281 / 1,693
Square-114.4719.35
top 15.3%236 / 1,373
Clock9.6812.79
top 23.4%546 / 1,887

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 Open 2018: 14.63Beijing Winter 2025: 12.79Beijing University Cube League 2025: 10.87Beijing Only 3x3 2025: 10.59Beijing Winter 2026: 10.63Beijing Spring Open 2026: 10.22Xuzhou Zenith 2026: 9.76Guilin Open 2026: 10.869.7614.6330 Apr 201818 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-50 5×5 single — 733 people have one; it is 5.67 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,465 people have one; it is 3.16 away.

Targets move as he improves.