People · China
Ziqi Liu (刘梓棋)
3×3 · top 9.8% of 288,433 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 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,905th in China. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since August 2025, she has put 99 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 14.20 in August 2025 to 10.77, a 24% improvement. Ziqi has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% 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 | 10.77 | 11.76 | top 9.8% | 3,905 / 28,499 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 18.77 | 21.29 | top 17.2% | 1,734 / 5,994 | |
| 2×2 | 3.28 | 4.85 | top 17.6% | 2,884 / 15,939 | |
| Pyraminx | 6.70 | 8.63 | top 25.5% | 2,904 / 10,269 |
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
- 24 Aug 2025First competition: Jiangmen Open 2025. A 14.20 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Guangzhou Grand Open 2026 · 5 Oct 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Guangzhou GraDUAL 3x3 IV 2026 · 16 Sep 2026
- Guangzhou GraDUAL 3x3 II 2026 · 19 Aug 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Guangdong Open - Revival & Rival 2026 · 6 Feb 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Guangzhou Small Cubes 2025 · 9 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Jiangmen Open 2025 · 24 Aug 2025
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.
- Zijian Cai (蔡子健) — met in 20 rounds, never finished ahead
- Yuan Gao (高原) — met in 16 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
- Yangbiao Liao (廖扬彪) — met in 16 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,606 people have one; it is 0.77 away.
- A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 6,118 people have one; it is 3.77 away.
Targets move as she improves.