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Haijie Zhang (张海杰)

3×3 one-handed · top 8.6% of 73,695 all-time · competing since July 2013 · 2013ZHAN27

Haijie Zhang (张海杰) has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 15.22, set at Guangzhou New Year's Cube Day 2015, puts him in the top 8.6% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 817th in China. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since July 2013, he has put 282 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 89% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.31 in July 2013 to 10.77, a 19% improvement. Haijie has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 8.6% of 73,695 all-time
15.22
signature single · Guangzhou New Year's Cube Day 2015
282
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 89% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×3 one-handed15.2219.65
top 8.6%817 / 5,922
3×310.7712.80
top 9.8%3,817 / 28,153
2×22.954.17
top 13.7%2,125 / 15,796
4×447.1051.31
top 20.9%2,257 / 5,926
Skewb5.829.89
top 24.4%1,510 / 5,004
5×51:29.431:39.57
top 26.8%1,238 / 2,816
Pyraminx7.929.79
top 35.5%3,873 / 10,224
3×3 Fewest Moves40 moves
early days — 1 solve560 / 1,058
6×63:29.213:37.62
top 54.3%1,006 / 1,349
7×75:36.20
top 61.5%1,018 / 1,261
Megaminx3:40.28
top 86.0%1,625 / 1,678

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

Guangzhou CCSA Championship 2013: 13.31Guangdong Open 2013: 14.37Guangzhou Small Cubes 2014: 11.96Guangzhou Cube Splashing Day 2014: 10.96Guangzhou Wushan Open 2014: 11.44Tianjin University Open 2014: 11.95Guangzhou New Year's Cube Day 2015: 10.91Guangzhou SYSU Open 2015: 10.7710.7714.3722 Jul 20136 Jun 2015

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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 5,987 people have one; it is 0.22 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.77 away.

Targets move as he improves.