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Chongjian Zhao (赵崇健)

Pyraminx · top 1.1% of 130,891 all-time · competing since June 2025 · 2025ZHAO21

Chongjian Zhao (赵崇健) has been competing for a year. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.96, set at Guangzhou Grand Open 2026, puts him in the top 1.1% of the 130,891 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 123rd in China. Until July 2011, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since June 2025, he has put 324 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 63% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His Pyraminx best has come down from 8.56 in August 2025 to 1.96, a 77% improvement. Chongjian has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 1.1% of 130,891 all-time
1.96
signature single · Guangzhou Grand Open 2026
324
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
Pyraminx1.965.60
top 1.1%123 / 10,269
2×22.303.23
top 7.1%1,017 / 15,939
3×310.9413.47
top 10.4%4,116 / 28,499
Skewb4.157.17
top 12.0%719 / 5,030
Clock7.558.53
top 13.0%291 / 1,887
3×3 Fewest Moves30 moves34.00
top 14.8%153 / 1,071
4×442.5546.80
top 15.2%1,678 / 5,999
5×51:18.531:30.57
top 18.1%889 / 2,857
Square-117.7127.18
top 22.7%375 / 1,373
3×3 one-handed21.1227.15
top 23.6%2,382 / 5,994
Megaminx1:38.48—
top 33.8%1,020 / 1,693
6×63:40.93—
early days — 1 solve1,084 / 1,363
7×75:30.28—
early days — 1 solve1,015 / 1,274

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

Jiangmen Open 2025: 8.56Guangzhou Special 2025: 7.90Guangdong Open - Revival & Rival 2026: 4.60Foshan Open 2026: 4.07Guangzhou Special 2026: 3.96Guangzhou Grand Open 2026: 1.961.968.5624 Aug 20255 Oct 2026

Best single per competition, Pyraminx. 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.96 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.30 away.

Targets move as he improves.