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Ho Zhen Xiang

3×3 · top 2.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2025 · 2025XIAN08

Ho Zhen Xiang has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.05, set at Kuala Lumpur Cubing Challenge 2026, puts him in the top 2.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 137th in Malaysia. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since May 2025, he has put 67 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 3 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.46 in May 2025 to 8.05, a 15% improvement. Ho has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.9% of 284,439 all-time
8.05
signature single · Kuala Lumpur Cubing Challenge 2026
67
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingMalaysia
3×38.0510.42
top 2.9%137 / 3,773
4×441.8746.49
top 14.3%226 / 1,219
3×3 one-handed20.0223.81
top 20.5%289 / 1,327

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

IUKL Final Solve 2025: 9.46gateway KLIA2 Cube Open 2025: 9.18Selangor Cube Open 2026: 8.76Kuala Lumpur Cubing Challenge 2026: 8.058.059.464 May 202522 Aug 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.05 away.
  • A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 1.87 away.

Targets move as he improves.