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Huyang Zou (邹胡杨)

3×3 · top 0.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2016 · 2016ZOUH01

Huyang Zou (邹胡杨) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.32, set at Shenzhen Youth Open 2023, puts him in the top 0.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 260th in China. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since January 2016, he has put 248 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 92% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.36 in January 2016 to 6.32, a 49% improvement. Huyang has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.7% of 284,439 all-time
6.32
signature single · Shenzhen Youth Open 2023
248
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 92% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×36.327.98
top 0.7%260 / 28,153
4×429.7332.38
top 2.7%259 / 5,926
3×3 one-handed12.7215.63
top 4.0%352 / 5,922
2×22.363.68
top 7.6%1,092 / 15,796
5×51:19.631:20.63
top 18.8%898 / 2,816
Pyraminx7.9111.86
top 35.4%3,865 / 10,224
7×74:24.194:25.16
early days — 3 solves741 / 1,261

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

Shenzhen New Year 2016: 12.36Shenzhen New Year 2017: 9.43China's 10th Anniversary Championship 2017: 8.55Shenzhen Open 2017: 8.32Dongguan Open 2018: 7.02Huizhou Open 2018: 8.28Zhongshan NxN Speedcubing 2018: 8.13Shenzhen Youth Open 2023: 6.32Shenzhen Open 2023: 7.416.3212.362 Jan 201624 Dec 2023

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.32 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 4.73 away.

Targets move as he improves.