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Elayne Zhang

3×3 · top 1.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2023 · 2023ZHAN28

Elayne Zhang has been competing for 3 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.37, set at King of Prussia Summer 2026, puts her in the top 1.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,082nd in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since June 2023, she has put 516 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 64% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 18.14 in June 2023 to 7.37, a 59% improvement. Elayne has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.8% of 284,439 all-time
7.37
signature single · King of Prussia Summer 2026
516
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 64% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.3710.22
top 1.8%1,082 / 59,724
Pyraminx3.855.95
top 6.9%1,761 / 28,708
Skewb3.707.27
top 8.9%1,375 / 18,907
4×438.1343.96
top 9.9%1,480 / 19,072
2×22.883.20
top 12.9%5,060 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed26.0628.30
top 37.0%4,909 / 15,683
5×51:43.181:56.05
top 37.7%3,011 / 9,401
Megaminx2:01.80—
top 46.7%3,448 / 7,841
Clock14.8417.19
top 47.3%3,825 / 8,927
Square-131.9937.34
top 53.2%3,499 / 6,743
6×64:29.716:25.42
top 74.6%2,951 / 4,196

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

Wilmington Warmup 2023: 18.14Warwick Cube Day 2023: 20.73New Jersey Championship 2024: 11.67Pennsylvania Championship 2024: 14.18Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 10.59UMBC Fall 2024: 10.23Penn Cube Day Fall 2024: 10.16Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2024: 11.53Penn Cube Day Spring 2025: 12.74King of Prussia Spring 2025: 8.66Bucks County Cubing AM 2025: 10.65CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 10.62Ephrata Fall 2025: 10.73River Hill Fall 2025: 10.18Cape May Summer A 2026: 8.99King of Prussia Summer 2026: 7.377.3720.733 Jun 202325 Jul 2026

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.37 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.85 away.

Targets move as she improves.