People · China
Jianing Zhang (张家宁)
3×3 · top 3.3% of 288,433 all-time · competing since July 2025 · 2025ZHAN94
Jianing Zhang (张家宁) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.26, set at Deqing Small & Special 2026, puts him in the top 3.3% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,253rd in China. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since July 2025, he has put 111 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 59% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.91 in July 2025 to 8.26, a 17% improvement. Jianing has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 8.26 | 9.09 | top 3.3% | 1,253 / 28,499 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 13.84 | 18.93 | top 5.9% | 575 / 5,994 | |
| 4×4 | 49.80 | 53.37 | top 24.6% | 2,651 / 5,999 | |
| Skewb | 6.12 | 8.66 | top 26.7% | 1,675 / 5,030 | |
| 2×2 | 4.08 | 6.30 | top 27.6% | 4,737 / 15,939 | |
| Square-1 | 22.26 | 33.12 | top 33.1% | 570 / 1,373 | |
| Clock | 14.83 | 15.78 | top 47.2% | 1,142 / 1,887 | |
| Pyraminx | 9.89 | 12.04 | top 52.2% | 5,502 / 10,269 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 26 Jul 2025First competition: Taizhou Open 2025. A 9.91 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Hangzhou Open 2026 · 23 May 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Deqing Small & Special 2026 · 26 Apr 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Xianju Special 2026 · 8 Mar 2026
- Hangzhou Winter 2025 · 29 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Ningbo Autumn 2025 · 13 Sep 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Taizhou Open 2025 · 26 Jul 2025
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.
- Weikang Zheng (郑炜康) — met in 22 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
- Yechen Yan (颜叶辰) — met in 20 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
- Jiashun Wu (吴嘉顺) — met in 19 rounds, finished ahead 13 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.26 away.
- A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,239 people have one; it is 1.84 away.
Targets move as he improves.