People · China
Jinze Chen (陈金泽)
3×3 · top 0.16% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2024 · 2024CHEJ08
Jinze Chen (陈金泽) has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.17, set at Fuzhou Summer 2026, puts him in the top 0.16% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 64th in China. Until November 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since September 2024, he has put 168 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 94% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 7.52 in September 2024 to 5.17, a 31% improvement. Jinze has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% 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 | 5.17 | 7.39 | top 0.16% | 64 / 28,153 | |
| 2×2 | 2.12 | 2.84 | top 5.6% | 787 / 15,796 |
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
- 21 Sep 2024First competition: Xuzhou Autumn 2024. A 7.52 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Fuzhou Summer 2026 · 23 Aug 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Hangzhou Open 2026 · 23 May 2026
- Xianju NxN 2026 · 7 Mar 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Ningbo Autumn 2025 · 13 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Quangang Afternoon 2025 · 31 Aug 2025
- Taizhou Open 2025 · 26 Jul 2025
- Lishui Open 2025 · 25 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Nanchang Spring 2025 · 26 Apr 2025
- Linhai Newcomers 2025 · 15 Mar 2025
- Xuzhou Autumn 2024 · 21 Sep 2024
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.
- Kaicheng Jin (金开诚) — met in 32 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
- Ruimin Yan (颜瑞民) — met in 25 rounds, finished ahead 24 times
- Chengze Liu (刘承泽) — met in 24 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
Next targets
- A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.17 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.12 away.
Targets move as he improves.