People · United States
Julia Zhuang
3×3 · top 8.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2024 · 2024ZHUA07
Julia Zhuang has been competing for a year. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.42, set at West Coast Cubing Tour: San Diego 2025, puts her in the top 8.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,785th in the United States. Until February 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since November 2024, she has put 45 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. That figure sets aside her 3 DNFs. Her 3×3 best has come down from 18.46 in November 2024 to 10.42, a 44% improvement. Julia 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 | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 10.42 | 13.28 | top 8.7% | 4,785 / 59,724 | |
| Skewb | 15.17 | — | early days — 3 solves | 15,060 / 18,907 |
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
- 31 May 2025First sub-15 3×3: 12.24 at Nub Open Mission Viejo Spring 2025.
- 23 Nov 2024First competition: UCSD Fall 2024. A 18.46 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Nub Open Trabuco Hills Fall 2025 · 4 Oct 2025
- West Coast Cubing Tour: San Diego 2025 · 21 Jun 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Nub Open Mission Viejo Spring 2025 · 31 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2025 · 30 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Nub Open Lake Forest 2024 · 15 Dec 2024 — 1 personal best set
- UCSD Fall 2024 · 23 Nov 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 her.
- Matthew Dickman — met in 10 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
- Shane Grogan — met in 10 rounds, never finished ahead
- Muhtasim Al-Farabi — met in 10 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.42 away.
- A sub-15 Skewb single — 57,358 people have one; it is 0.17 away.
Targets move as she improves.