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Zixuan Liu (刘子瑄)

6×6 · top 0.68% of 17,510 all-time · competing since August 2015 · 2015LIUZ07

Zixuan Liu (刘子瑄) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 6×6: a personal-best single of 1:20.81, set at Quanzhou Big Cubes 2026, puts him in the top 0.68% of the 17,510 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 12th in China. Until July 2017, no official 6×6 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 45 competitions since August 2015, he has put 2,168 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.90 in August 2015 to 6.88, a 47% improvement. Zixuan has entered 45 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

6×6
best event — top 0.68% of 17,510 all-time
1:20.81
signature single · Quanzhou Big Cubes 2026
2,168
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 73% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
6×61:20.811:25.05
top 0.68%12 / 1,349
5×545.5651.14
top 0.77%30 / 2,816
7×72:05.292:07.87
top 0.93%18 / 1,261
3×36.888.78
top 1.2%425 / 28,153
4×427.2032.07
top 1.4%139 / 5,926
2×21.693.37
top 3.0%377 / 15,796
3×3 one-handed13.1017.40
top 4.6%407 / 5,922
Square-19.0812.51
top 4.6%57 / 1,362
Skewb3.315.38
top 6.6%376 / 5,004
Pyraminx4.045.53
top 7.9%931 / 10,224
3×3 Fewest Moves27 moves36.67
early days — 3 solves79 / 1,058
Megaminx1:19.501:30.27
top 21.4%648 / 1,678
Clock11.1319.19
top 30.7%723 / 1,843

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

Shantou Open 2015: 12.90China Championship 2015: 9.70Huizhou Open 2016: 9.91Chongqing Open 2016: 11.73Shantou Open 2016: 10.85ZUST Open 2017: 9.24China Championship 2017: 8.91Inner Mongolia Summer 2017: 8.54Quanzhou Side Event 2017: 9.53Shantou Open 2017: 8.27China's 10th Anniversary Championship 2017: 8.74Zhongshan Open 2017: 9.94Guangdong Open 2018: 9.03ZHBIT Open 2018: 8.62Shenzhen Open 2018: 9.11Meizhou Open 2018: 8.60Jieyang Open 2018: 7.97Zhongshan NxN Speedcubing 2018: 8.81Dongguan Mid-Autumn Festival 2018: 8.24China Championship 2018: 8.48Yunnan Open 2018: 9.20Jieyang Winter 2019: 8.50Zhuyuangang Open 2019: 8.17HCHS 10th Anniversary 2019: 7.54China Championship 2019: 8.45Jieyang Open 2019: 6.88Shenzhen Cubing 10th Anniversary 2019: 7.37Xiamen Autumn 2019: 7.19Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2019: 8.70Zhongshan NxN Speedcubing 2019: 8.19Jieyang Winter 2020: 9.01Jieyang Good Afternoon 2021: 9.47Guangdong Open 2021: 8.63Zhuhai Pi Day 2026: 7.636.8812.902 Aug 201514 Mar 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-1:00 6×6 single — 2 people have one; it is 20.81 away.
  • A sub-40 5×5 single — 68 people have one; it is 5.56 away.

Targets move as he improves.