Le Quang Liem, the new #1 junior in the world, will be at Texas Tech University this October to compete in the 2011 SPICE Cup A group. The top American junior on this list is GM Hess. He is unable to compete in the SPICE Cup due to his college schedule.
| Rank | Name | Title | Country | Rating | Games | B-Year |
| 1 | Le, Quang Liem | g | VIE | 2715 | 22 | 1991 |
| 2 | Caruana, Fabiano | g | ITA | 2711 | 9 | 1992 |
| 3 | Giri, Anish | g | NED | 2701 | 12 | 1994 |
| 4 | Yu, Yangyi | g | CHN | 2672 | 33 | 1994 |
| 5 | Feller, Sebastien | g | FRA | 2666 | 6 | 1991 |
| 6 | So, Wesley | g | PHI | 2658 | 23 | 1993 |
| 7 | Ding, Liren | g | CHN | 2654 | 15 | 1992 |
| 8 | Negi, Parimarjan | g | IND | 2642 | 18 | 1993 |
| 9 | Matlakov, Maxim | g | RUS | 2632 | 0 | 1991 |
| 10 | Sjugirov, Sanan | g | RUS | 2629 | 0 | 1993 |
| 11 | Salgado Lopez, Ivan | g | ESP | 2626 | 7 | 1991 |
| 12 | Safarli, Eltaj | g | AZE | 2622 | 9 | 1992 |
| 13 | Kovalyov, Anton | g | ARG | 2612 | 9 | 1992 |
| 14 | Hess, Robert L | g | USA | 2609 | 13 | 1991 |
| 15 | Zherebukh, Yaroslav | g | UKR | 2590 | 15 | 1993 |
| 16 | Nyzhnyk, Illya | g | UKR | 2589 | 9 | 1996 |
| 17 | Shimanov, Aleksandr | g | RUS | 2586 | 11 | 1992 |
| 18 | Nabaty, Tamir | g | ISR | 2584 | 11 | 1991 |
| 19 | Hou, Yifan | g | CHN | 2575 | 24 | 1994 |
| 20 | Cordova, Emilio | g | PER | 2567 | 18 | 1991 |
