People · China
Yiming Liu (刘一铭)
3×3 · top 1.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2025 · 2025LIUY14
Yiming Liu (刘一铭) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.86, set at Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2025, puts him in the top 1.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 421st in China. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 3 competitions since April 2025, he has put 85 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 8% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. Yiming has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 6.86 | 9.58 | top 1.2% | 421 / 28,153 | |
| 2×2 | 2.46 | 4.06 | top 8.5% | 1,255 / 15,796 | |
| 4×4 | 38.37 | 41.69 | top 10.2% | 1,076 / 5,926 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 17.42 | 18.82 | top 13.6% | 1,353 / 5,922 | |
| Clock | 14.36 | — | early days — 1 solve | 1,070 / 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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 4 Apr 2025First competition: Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2025. A 6.86 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2026 · 4 Apr 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Beijing Winter 2026 · 10 Jan 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2025 · 4 Apr 2025
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.
- Ruimin Yan (颜瑞民) — met in 15 rounds, finished ahead 11 times
- Yiqin Sun (孙弋钦) — met in 15 rounds, never finished ahead
- Yusheng Du (杜宇生) — met in 14 rounds, finished ahead twice
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.86 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.46 away.
Targets move as he improves.