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Max Qianyu Zhao

3×3 · top 21.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2023 · 2023ZHAO06

Max Qianyu Zhao has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 14.16, set at Tramsheds I: Newcomer Sunday 2024, puts him in the top 21.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,931st in Australia. Across 4 competitions since March 2023, he has put 24 official solves on the record across one event. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 30.20 in March 2023 to 14.16, a 53% improvement. Max has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 21.5% of 284,439 all-time
14.16
signature single · Tramsheds I: Newcomer Sunday 2024
24
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
3×314.1620.23
top 21.5%1,931 / 11,709

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

North Sydney Cube Day 2023: 30.20Marrickville Mega May Open 2023: 25.77Tramsheds I: Newcomer Sunday 2024: 14.16Tramsheds II: May Sunday 2024: 15.7214.1630.205 Mar 202319 May 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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 2.16 away.

Targets move as he improves.