We report Chandra detection of three UV bright radio quiet quasars at $zgtrsim5$. We have collected a sufficient number of photons to extract an X-ray spectrum of each quasar to measure their basic X-ray properties, such as the X-ray flux, power law photon index ($Gamma$), and optical-to-X-ray spectral slope ($alpha_{rm OX}$). J074749+115352 at $z=5.26$ is the X-ray brightest radio-quiet quasar at $z>5$. It may have a short timescale variation (on a timescale of $sim3800rm~s$ in the observers frame, or $sim600rm~s$ in the rest frame) which is however largely embedded in the statistical noise. We extract phase folded spectra of this quasar. There are two distinguishable states: a high soft state with an average X-ray flux $sim2.7$ times of the low hard state, and a significantly steeper X-ray spectral slope ($Gamma=2.40_{-0.32}^{+0.33}$ vs $1.78_{-0.24}^{+0.25}$). We also compare the three quasars detected in this paper to other quasar samples. We find that J074749+115352, with a SMBH mass of $M_{rm SMBH}approx1.8times10^9rm~M_odot$ and an Eddington ratio of $lambda_{rm Edd}approx2.3$, is extraordinarily X-ray bright. It has an average $alpha_{rm OX}=-1.46pm0.02$ and a 2-10 keV bolometric correction factor of $L_{rm bol}/L_{rm2-10keV}=42.4pm5.8$, both significantly depart from some well defined scaling relations. We compare $Gamma$ of the three quasars to other samples at different redshifts, and do not find any significant redshift evolution based on the limited sample of $z>5$ quasars with reliable measurements of the X-ray spectral properties.
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