People · China
Yongjun Liao (廖泳竣)
3×3 · top 0.18% of 288,433 all-time · competing since August 2025 · 2025LIAO06
Yongjun Liao (廖泳竣) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.26, set at Fuzhou Summer 2026, puts him in the top 0.18% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 70th in China. Until April 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since August 2025, he has put 94 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 85% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 7.20 in August 2025 to 5.26, a 27% improvement. Yongjun has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% 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 | 5.26 | 6.64 | top 0.18% | 70 / 28,499 | |
| 2×2 | 2.35 | 2.63 | top 7.5% | 1,096 / 15,939 |
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
- 31 Aug 2025First competition: Quangang Morning 2025. A 7.20 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Wuhan Crimson Autumn 2026 · 13 Sep 2026
- Fuzhou Summer 2026 · 23 Aug 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Xianju NxN 2026 · 7 Mar 2026
- Fuzhou Open 2026 · 17 Jan 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Hangzhou Winter 2025 · 29 Nov 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Ningbo Autumn 2025 · 13 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Quangang Morning 2025 · 31 Aug 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.
- Kaicheng Jin (金开诚) — met in 15 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Zhen Chen (陈震) — met in 14 rounds, never finished ahead
- Weichen Xu (徐玮宸) — met in 11 rounds, finished ahead 10 times
Next targets
- A sub-5 3×3 single — 355 people have one; it is 0.26 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.35 away.
Targets move as he improves.