People · China
Zhaoyang Li (李朝阳)
3×3 · top 1.7% of 288,433 all-time · competing since November 2025 · 2025LIZH12
Zhaoyang Li (李朝阳) has been competing for 11 months. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.32, set at Odd Day in Hong Kong 2026, puts him in the top 1.7% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 627th in China. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since November 2025, he has put 58 official solves on the record across one event. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 97% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 8.98 in November 2025 to 7.32, an 18% improvement. Zhaoyang 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 | 7.32 | 8.75 | top 1.7% | 627 / 28,499 |
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
- 15 Nov 2025First competition: Hong Kong Championship 2025. A 9.84 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Hong Kong Autumn Cube Day 2026 · 17 Oct 2026
- Hong Kong Cube Day 2026 · 12 Sep 2026
- Odd Day in Hong Kong 2026 · 26 Apr 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Zhuhai Pi Day 2026 · 14 Mar 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Hong Kong Championship 2025 · 15 Nov 2025 — 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.
- Yang Pin Xiu (楊品修) — met in 12 rounds, never finished ahead
- Timothy Kong Wing Sum (江永琛) — met in 10 rounds, finished ahead once
- Aile Yang (杨艾乐) — met in 10 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.32 away.
Targets move as he improves.