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Chenyin Zhu (朱辰吟)

3×3 · top 0.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024ZHUC02

Chenyin Zhu (朱辰吟) has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.18, set at Deqing Small Cubes Summer 2024, puts him in the top 0.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 218th in China. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 3 competitions since March 2024, he has put 65 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. Chenyin has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.6% of 284,439 all-time
6.18
signature single · Deqing Small Cubes Summer 2024
65
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×36.187.26
top 0.6%218 / 28,153
2×22.153.59
top 5.8%813 / 15,796
Pyraminx7.769.05
top 34.2%3,754 / 10,224

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

Huzhou Open 2024: 6.61Deqing Small Cubes Summer 2024: 6.18Hangzhou Winter 2025: 6.996.186.9930 Mar 202429 Nov 2025

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

  • 30 Mar 2024First competition: Huzhou Open 2024. A 6.62 3×3 single to start from.

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.18 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.15 away.

Targets move as he improves.