People · China
Yubang Liu (刘宇邦)
3×3 one-handed · top 3.2% of 73,695 all-time · competing since December 2016 · 2016LIUY31
Yubang Liu (刘宇邦) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 12.14, set at Guangzhou Small Cubes 2025, puts him in the top 3.2% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 273rd in China. Until January 2010, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since December 2016, he has put 66 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.34 in March 2017 to 9.43, a 24% improvement. Yubang has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% 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 one-handed | 12.14 | 15.72 | top 3.2% | 273 / 5,922 | |
| 3×3 | 9.43 | 11.20 | top 5.9% | 2,285 / 28,153 | |
| 5×5 | 1:47.03 | 1:59.39 | top 40.5% | 1,810 / 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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 26 Nov 2023First sub-10 3×3: 9.80 at Shenzhen Youth Open 2023.
- 11 Dec 2016First competition: Big 'n Blind 2016.
Competitions
- Guangzhou Small Cubes 2025 · 9 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Shenzhen Youth Open 2023 · 26 Nov 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Guangzhou SCUT 2017 · 22 Apr 2017
- GDSY Open 2017 · 26 Mar 2017 — 1 personal best set
- Big 'n Blind 2016 · 11 Dec 2016
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.
- Tianze Xu (徐天泽) — met in 11 rounds, finished ahead once
- Xusheng Hong (洪旭升) — met in 10 rounds, finished ahead 9 times
- Ruohan Qiu (邱若寒) — met in 10 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 0.14 away.
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.43 away.
Targets move as he improves.