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Luke Zhang

Square-1 · top 1.3% of 25,272 all-time · competing since November 2022 · 2022ZHAN58

Luke Zhang has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Square-1: a personal-best single of 6.70, set at BC Championship 2026, puts him in the top 1.3% of the 25,272 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 8th in Canada. Until April 2017, no official Square-1 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 40 competitions since November 2022, he has put 931 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 29.22 in November 2022 to 9.00, a 69% improvement. Luke has entered 40 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Square-1
best event — top 1.3% of 25,272 all-time
6.70
signature single · BC Championship 2026
931
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
Square-16.709.80
top 1.3%8 / 952
3×39.0011.76
top 4.9%470 / 10,392
2×22.354.44
top 7.5%489 / 7,173
Pyraminx5.4010.12
top 15.8%627 / 4,858
4×447.1451.15
top 21.0%526 / 3,118
3×3 one-handed23.6426.52
top 30.5%684 / 2,620
Clock13.1216.55
top 40.2%354 / 1,029
Skewb8.4614.57
top 44.7%1,174 / 2,907
5×52:19.162:48.93
top 60.6%799 / 1,499
Megaminx2:33.48—
top 62.9%751 / 1,375
3×3 Fewest Moves51 moves58.00
top 81.5%241 / 283
6×66:07.176:38.13
top 91.5%564 / 665
7×712:01.00—
early days — 1 solve495 / 503

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

SnoCo Veteran's Weekend B 2022: 29.22Nanaimo Swing into Spring 2023: 17.27BC Spring Solving B 2023: 15.73Vancouver Pride 2023: 13.86Canadian Championship 2023: 14.30Richmond Summer Open 2023: 12.37Cubing Around Metrotown 2023: 12.66Canada's Best in the West 2024: 13.80Burnaby Basics 2024: 13.71Richmond Rumble 2024: 12.59Pitt Meadows Spring Open 2024: 14.47Vancouver's on Tracks 2024: 12.78Vancouver Southlands Sprint 2024: 13.40Maple Ridge Favourites 2025: 11.54PR Time in Burnaby 2025: 11.67Chill Cubing in Chilliwack 2025: 10.63Vancouver Newcomers 2025: 9.00Aldergrove Clock Fest 2025: 10.01Coquitlam Crunch 2025: 11.35Surrey Monday Open 2025: 11.12Warm Up Vancouver 2025: 9.92Warm Up Seattle 2025: 10.25White Rock's Back to Square-1 2025: 9.46Burnaby Summer 2025: 10.20Make Cutoff Maple Ridge 2025: 11.08 Bellevue Cubing Afternoon 2025: 9.90Seattle Cube Cascade UW 2025: 11.59Richmond Spring 2026: 14.32Chill Cubing in Chilliwack 2026: 12.10BC Championship 2026: 15.369.0029.2212 Nov 20227 Aug 2026

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-6 Square-1 single — 201 people have one; it is 0.70 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.00 away.

Targets move as he improves.