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Ava Zheng

3×3 · top 17.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2020 · 2020ZHEN04

Ava Zheng has been competing for 7 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.14, set at Virginia Championship 2023, puts her in the top 17.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 9,588th in the United States. Across 4 competitions since January 2020, she has put 33 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. That figure sets aside her 2 DNFs. Her 3×3 best has come down from 31.34 in January 2020 to 13.14, a 58% improvement. Ava has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 17.9% of 284,439 all-time
13.14
signature single · Virginia Championship 2023
33
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×313.1416.18
top 17.9%9,588 / 59,724
2×211.2911.68
top 82.3%34,182 / 40,951

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

Potomac Speedcubing 2020: 31.34Slow N Steady Winter 2020: 30.07TJHSST Spring 2023: 18.42Virginia Championship 2023: 13.1413.1431.3411 Jan 202010 Nov 2023

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.14 away.
  • A sub-10 2×2 single — 145,545 people have one; it is 1.29 away.

Targets move as she improves.