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Henry Zhang

3×3 · top 0.95% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2019 · 2019ZHAN49

Henry Zhang has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.61, set at Cubes on the Bayside Summer 2024, puts him in the top 0.95% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 594th in the United States. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since March 2019, he has put 524 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 64% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.73 in March 2019 to 6.61, a 68% improvement. Henry has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.95% of 284,439 all-time
6.61
signature single · Cubes on the Bayside Summer 2024
524
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 64% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.617.74
top 0.95%594 / 59,724
Skewb2.504.78
top 2.9%433 / 18,907
Pyraminx2.925.45
top 3.4%883 / 28,708
2×22.143.14
top 5.7%2,292 / 40,951
Square-110.0715.10
top 6.2%457 / 6,743
4×439.3845.06
top 11.4%1,679 / 19,072
Megaminx1:14.281:22.06
top 18.2%1,234 / 7,841
3×3 one-handed20.6026.62
top 22.1%2,845 / 15,683
5×51:41.481:56.93
top 36.5%2,903 / 9,401
Clock14.0017.28
top 43.8%3,521 / 8,927

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

SBU Spring 2019: 20.73Brooklyn 2019: 12.63Brooklyn Fall 2019: 11.20SBU Fall 2019: 9.65Westport Summer 2022: 8.26Naticube 2022: 9.73New York Yopen 2022: 8.26NJIT Spring 2023: 8.32PBs in Palisades 2023: 7.97North Jersey Speedsolving A 2023: 7.48Westport Warmup 2023: 6.75Cubes on the Bayside 2023: 8.29Manhattan Mini C 2023: 7.69Cubes on the Bayside Winter 2024: 7.01North Jersey Speedsolving B 2024: 7.55Cubes on the Bayside Summer 2024: 6.61Hudson Valley Summer 2024: 8.25Long Island Winter Solstice 2024: 7.22Long Island Summer 2025: 7.056.6120.7331 Mar 201912 Jul 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.

  • Evan Liu — met in 61 rounds, finished ahead 19 times
  • Parker Trager — met in 61 rounds, finished ahead twice
  • Eli Rogers — met in 58 rounds, finished ahead 40 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.61 away.
  • A sub-2 Skewb single — 1,013 people have one; it is 0.50 away.

Targets move as he improves.