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Ziqi Liu (刘梓棋)

3×3 · top 9.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2025 · 2025LIUZ09

Ziqi Liu (刘梓棋) has been competing for a year. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.77, set at Guangzhou GraDUAL 3x3 II 2026, puts her in the top 9.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,817th in China. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since August 2025, she has put 54 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 14.20 in August 2025 to 10.77, a 24% improvement. Ziqi has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.8% of 284,439 all-time
10.77
signature single · Guangzhou GraDUAL 3x3 II 2026
54
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×310.7711.91
top 9.8%3,817 / 28,153
3×3 one-handed18.7724.65
top 17.2%1,698 / 5,922
2×23.445.31
top 19.4%3,193 / 15,796
Pyraminx6.709.16
top 25.4%2,868 / 10,224

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

Jiangmen Open 2025: 14.20Guangzhou Small Cubes 2025: 12.00Guangdong Open - Revival & Rival 2026: 13.34Guangzhou GraDUAL 3x3 II 2026: 10.7710.7714.2024 Aug 202519 Aug 2026

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.77 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 5,987 people have one; it is 3.77 away.

Targets move as she improves.