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Lianhao Zhu (褚连皓)

3×3 · top 0.16% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2017 · 2017ZHUL02

Lianhao Zhu (褚连皓) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.19, set at Zibo Open 2024, puts him in the top 0.16% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 65th in China. Until November 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since April 2017, he has put 478 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 28.69 in April 2017 to 5.19, an 82% improvement. Lianhao has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.16% of 284,439 all-time
5.19
signature single · Zibo Open 2024
478
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×35.196.91
top 0.16%65 / 28,153
2×21.372.10
top 1.6%190 / 15,796
Pyraminx2.383.18
top 1.9%225 / 10,224
Skewb3.125.79
top 5.6%311 / 5,004
4×436.1841.13
top 7.8%813 / 5,926
3×3 blindfolded1:24.27
top 21.1%289 / 1,183
Megaminx2:07.552:28.54
top 49.9%1,300 / 1,678

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

Weihai Open 2017: 28.69Qingdao Open 2018: 13.15Weihai Open 2018: 11.03China Championship 2018: 11.97Shantou Open 2018: 10.60Zibo Open 2018: 10.63Weihai Open 2019: 10.06Shijiazhuang Open 2019: 8.99China Championship 2019: 10.73Shandong Open 2019: 8.88Zibo Open 2019: 8.19Taiyuan Winter 2019: 8.74Nanchang Good Morning 2021: 7.52Shaoxing Morning 2021: 5.52Xuzhou Open AM 2021: 6.98Zibo Open 2024: 5.19Tianjin Open 2024: 5.955.1928.6930 Apr 20171 Jun 2024

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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.19 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.37 away.

Targets move as he improves.