People · China
Jinyi Zhu (朱晋逸)
3×3 · top 0.97% of 288,433 all-time · competing since March 2025 · 2025ZHUJ04
Jinyi Zhu (朱晋逸) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.62, set at Xuzhou Open 2025, puts him in the top 0.97% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 366th in China. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since March 2025, he has put 114 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 87% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 8.62 in March 2025 to 6.62, a 23% improvement. Jinyi has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% 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 | 6.62 | 8.10 | top 0.97% | 366 / 28,499 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 14.64 | 16.02 | top 7.4% | 732 / 5,994 | |
| 4×4 | 37.61 | 49.30 | top 9.5% | 1,011 / 5,999 | |
| 2×2 | 2.72 | 3.35 | top 11.2% | 1,751 / 15,939 | |
| Pyraminx | 7.63 | 9.32 | top 33.1% | 3,681 / 10,269 | |
| Skewb | 11.89 | 15.56 | top 65.5% | 3,534 / 5,030 |
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
- 15 Mar 2025First competition: Linhai Newcomers 2025. A 8.62 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Xianju NxN 2026 · 7 Mar 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Xuzhou Open 2025 · 16 Nov 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Ningbo Autumn 2025 · 13 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Taizhou Open 2025 · 26 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Linhai Newcomers 2025 · 15 Mar 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.
- Ruimin Yan (颜瑞民) — met in 18 rounds, finished ahead 17 times
- Xulang Li (黎旭朗) — met in 17 rounds, never finished ahead
- Zhen Chen (陈震) — met in 17 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.62 away.
- A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,239 people have one; it is 2.64 away.
Targets move as he improves.