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Lim Zhi Hang

3×3 · top 4.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2019 · 2019HANG04

Lim Zhi Hang has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.85, set at Penang Cube Open 2022, puts him in the top 4.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 227th in Malaysia. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since March 2019, he has put 123 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.32 in March 2019 to 8.85, a 34% improvement. Lim has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.5% of 284,439 all-time
8.85
signature single · Penang Cube Open 2022
123
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingMalaysia
3×38.8512.89
top 4.5%227 / 3,773
Pyraminx4.455.56
top 10.0%190 / 1,723
3×3 one-handed19.8922.62
top 20.2%288 / 1,327
Megaminx1:53.242:05.63
top 42.2%263 / 518
Skewb8.6315.48
top 45.9%543 / 1,053
2×25.616.34
top 46.6%1,438 / 2,541
3×3 blindfolded7:26.49
early days — 1 solve158 / 169

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

USM Penang Cube 2019: 13.32Malaysia 10th Anniversary Cube Open 2019: 10.22Penang Cube Open 2022: 8.85Kedah Cube Open 2024: 10.608.8513.3223 Mar 201921 Sep 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.85 away.
  • A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.45 away.

Targets move as he improves.