People · China
Danning Zhao (赵丹宁)
Pyraminx · top 0.57% of 129,321 all-time · competing since April 2021 · 2021ZHAO13
Danning Zhao (赵丹宁) has been competing for 5 years. Her best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.62, set at Zibo Open 2024, puts her in the top 0.57% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 61st in China. Until April 2012, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since April 2021, she has put 455 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 52% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 13.15 in April 2021 to 6.50, a 51% improvement. Danning has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyraminx | 1.62 | 2.66 | top 0.57% | 61 / 10,224 | |
| 3×3 | 6.50 | 7.61 | top 0.85% | 317 / 28,153 | |
| 2×2 | 1.61 | 2.39 | top 2.6% | 313 / 15,796 | |
| 4×4 | 29.94 | 32.20 | top 2.8% | 271 / 5,926 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 13.12 | 18.98 | top 4.6% | 410 / 5,922 | |
| Skewb | 3.57 | 7.22 | top 8.2% | 463 / 5,004 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 17 Dec 2023First sub-10 3×3: 8.73 at Shenyang Open 2023.
- 17 Dec 2023Five personal bests in one day at Shenyang Open 2023.
- 4 Apr 2021First competition: Beijing Spring PM 2021. A 13.15 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Guangdong Open - Revival & Rival 2026 · 6 Feb 2026
- Zhengzhou Summer III 2025 · 24 Aug 2025
- Zibo Open 2025 · 10 Aug 2025
- Beijing Summer 2025 · 17 May 2025
- Xuzhou Newcomers 2025 · 30 Mar 2025
- Chengdu Spring Open 2025 · 8 Feb 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Xi'an Open 2024 · 3 Aug 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Zibo Open 2024 · 19 May 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Shenyang Spring 2024 · 5 Apr 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Hangzhou Spring 2024 · 2 Mar 2024
- Fushun Open 2024 · 28 Jan 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Shenzhen Open 2023 · 24 Dec 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Shenyang Open 2023 · 17 Dec 2023 — 5 personal bests set
- Tianjin Summer Solstice 2021 · 20 Jun 2021
- Beijing Spring PM 2021 · 4 Apr 2021
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.
- Chenhao Ma (马晨皓) — met in 66 rounds, finished ahead 30 times
- Yiheng Wang (王艺衡) — met in 65 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
- Kaixi Guo (郭铠希) — met in 48 rounds, finished ahead 17 times
Next targets
- A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.62 away.
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.50 away.
Targets move as she improves.