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Haoxuan Zhu (朱皓轩)

5×5 · top 0.24% of 40,792 all-time · competing since May 2019 · 2019ZHUH05

Haoxuan Zhu (朱皓轩) has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 5×5: a personal-best single of 41.12, set at Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2025, puts him in the top 0.24% of the 40,792 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 11th in China. Until July 2017, no official 5×5 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since May 2019, he has put 175 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 85% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 4 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.33 in May 2019 to 7.73, a 42% improvement. Haoxuan has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

5×5
best event — top 0.24% of 40,792 all-time
41.12
signature single · Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2025
175
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 85% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
5×541.1251.00
top 0.24%11 / 2,816
7×72:04.752:13.92
top 0.91%16 / 1,261
6×61:23.251:28.95
top 0.95%16 / 1,349
4×425.9631.96
top 0.97%91 / 5,926
3×37.738.92
top 2.3%843 / 28,153
Megaminx58.261:07.07
top 9.1%223 / 1,678
3×3 one-handed18.4821.41
top 16.4%1,620 / 5,922

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

Guiyang Open 2019: 13.33Huzhou Open 2024: 8.16Guiyang Open 2024: 7.81Xi'an Open 2024: 8.71Chengdu Spring Open 2025: 8.31Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2025: 7.737.7313.331 May 20194 Apr 2025

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-40 5×5 single — 68 people have one; it is 1.12 away.
  • A sub-2:00 7×7 single — 83 people have one; it is 4.75 away.

Targets move as he improves.