People · China
Yuming Liu
3×3 · top 9.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2023 · 2023LIUY08
Yuming Liu has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.82, set at Kensington May Sunday 2024, puts him in the top 9.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,884th in China. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since September 2023, he has put 178 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Yuming has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% 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 | 10.82 | 12.02 | top 9.9% | 3,884 / 28,153 | |
| 2×2 | 2.71 | 4.80 | top 11.0% | 1,691 / 15,796 | |
| 4×4 | 42.28 | 47.37 | top 14.8% | 1,604 / 5,926 | |
| Pyraminx | 6.24 | 10.69 | top 21.8% | 2,489 / 10,224 | |
| 5×5 | 1:28.63 | 1:36.95 | top 26.2% | 1,215 / 2,816 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 24.43 | 34.25 | top 32.7% | 3,147 / 5,922 | |
| 7×7 | 4:14.99 | 4:23.85 | top 36.1% | 695 / 1,261 | |
| 6×6 | 2:54.02 | 3:08.09 | top 38.1% | 775 / 1,349 | |
| Skewb | 11.98 | 18.96 | top 66.0% | 3,530 / 5,004 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 4:25.42 | — | early days — 1 solve | 998 / 1,183 |
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 May 2025Three personal bests in one day at VIC State Championship 2025.
- 9 Sep 2023First competition: Cranbourne Spring Saturday 2023. A 13.84 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Braybrook Big Cubes 2026 · 2 May 2026
- Melbourne Cube Days 2025 · 29 Nov 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Geelong Winter 2025 · 30 Aug 2025
- VIC State Championship 2025 · 31 May 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Melbourne Cube Days 2024 · 30 Nov 2024
- Kensington May Sunday 2024 · 12 May 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Melbourne Cube Days 2023 · 11 Nov 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Cranbourne Spring Saturday 2023 · 9 Sep 2023 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Emmet Hobbs — met in 35 rounds, finished ahead 18 times
- Swami Srinivasan — met in 33 rounds, finished ahead 12 times
- Myles Jarman — met in 33 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.82 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.71 away.
Targets move as he improves.