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Charlize Zhang

3×3 · top 8.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2024 · 2024ZHAN04

Charlize Zhang has been competing for 3 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.43, set at PBs in Palisades 2024, puts her in the top 8.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,800th in the United States. Until February 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 2 competitions since January 2024, she has put 30 official solves on the record across four events. Charlize has entered two competitions.

3×3
best event — top 8.7% of 284,439 all-time
10.43
signature single · PBs in Palisades 2024
30
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×310.4312.44
top 8.7%4,800 / 59,724
Square-127.3131.54
top 44.2%2,871 / 6,743
4×41:07.54
early days — 2 solves7,361 / 19,072
2×26.428.15
top 55.2%22,574 / 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

Cubes on the Bayside Winter 2024: 10.90PBs in Palisades 2024: 10.4310.4310.9014 Jan 202417 Feb 2024

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.

  • Rex Ozsvath — met in 7 rounds, finished ahead twice
  • Nico Ozsvath — met in 7 rounds, finished ahead once
  • Evan Liu — met in 7 rounds, never finished ahead

Next targets

  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.43 away.
  • A sub-25 Square-1 single — 9,896 people have one; it is 2.31 away.

Targets move as she improves.