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Yufei Liu (刘宇飞)

3×3 · top 9.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2017 · 2017LIUY09

Yufei Liu (刘宇飞) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.60, set at Zhengzhou Summer III 2025, puts him in the top 9.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,624th in China. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 3 competitions since June 2017, he has put 49 official solves on the record across five events. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.82 in June 2017 to 10.60, a 23% improvement. Yufei has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.3% of 284,439 all-time
10.60
signature single · Zhengzhou Summer III 2025
49
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×310.6012.73
top 9.3%3,624 / 28,153
2×23.214.23
top 16.7%2,684 / 15,796
Pyraminx7.099.28
top 28.6%3,186 / 10,224
3×3 one-handed27.7835.14
top 41.3%3,783 / 5,922
4×41:15.361:32.21
top 51.9%4,623 / 5,926

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

Luoyang Open 2017: 13.82Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2024: 10.92Zhengzhou Summer III 2025: 10.6010.6013.8211 Jun 201724 Aug 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.60 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.21 away.

Targets move as he improves.