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Michael Zheng

3×3 · top 0.49% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2015 · 2015ZHEN17

Michael Zheng has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.02, set at Greater Toronto 2024, puts him in the top 0.49% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 38th in Canada. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 58 competitions since November 2015, he has put 1,119 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.37 in November 2015 to 6.02, a 51% improvement. Michael has entered 58 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.49% of 284,439 all-time
6.02
signature single · Greater Toronto 2024
1,119
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×36.028.78
top 0.49%38 / 10,392
2×21.593.30
top 2.6%165 / 7,173
4×436.5445.22
top 8.2%191 / 3,118
3×3 one-handed16.8222.35
top 12.1%260 / 2,620
3×3 Fewest Moves29 moves36.33
top 12.2%40 / 283
Pyraminx7.1012.33
top 28.7%1,242 / 4,858
5×51:35.451:49.03
top 31.9%389 / 1,499
Square-126.6435.91
top 42.7%370 / 952
Clock14.8718.33
top 47.4%428 / 1,029
Skewb9.3814.45
top 51.0%1,392 / 2,907
3×3 blindfolded5:20.87—
early days — 2 solves289 / 351

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

Toronto Open Fall 2015: 12.37Newmarket Open 2016: 11.47Toronto Limited Fall 2016: 10.95Battle of Waterloo 2017: 10.18Oakville Limited Winter 2018: 10.15Oakville Limited Fall 2018: 9.26Return to Toronto 2019: 9.52Newmarket Open 2019: 8.80Canadian Championship 2019: 9.02Cubing in the 6ix 2019: 10.15Battle of Waterloo 2019: 9.45Leap to Barrie 2020: 9.81Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 9.54Ajax NxNxN 2022: 9.53Oakville Fall A 2022: 8.98Waterloo Favourites A 2023: 8.76Pickering D 2023: 8.71Newmarket Favourites 2023: 10.10Markham 3x3x3 Morning 2023: 7.92Open de Montréal 2023: 9.08Southern Ontario Summer - Newmarket 2023: 8.55Canadian Championship 2023: 8.98Appleby Summer B 2023: 8.68Ajax 3x3x3 Evening 2023: 8.25Appleby Fall A 2023: 8.12Pickering Favourites Fall 2023: 8.15Pickering Fall B 2023: 8.25Scarborough Fall B 2023: 7.38Pickering Favourites Autumn 2023: 7.66Kingston Winter 2024: 8.40Greater Toronto 2024: 6.02Ajax 3x3x3 Newcomers C 2024: 6.79Moncton Spring 2024: 8.27Charlottetown Mini 2024: 7.79Thornhill Spring 2024: 7.48Battle of Waterloo 2024: 8.25Halifax Summer 2024: 8.68Appleby Summer 2024: 8.94Ontario Championship 2024: 9.49Maritimes 2025: 9.24Greater Toronto 2025: 7.56Moncton 2025: 7.64Charlottetown 2025: 8.22St. John's Spring 2025: 9.08Pickering NxNxN Summer 2025: 8.37Championnat Canadien 2025: 8.78Pickering Favourites Fall 2025: 10.21Moncton 2026: 8.53Pickering Mini Morning 2026: 7.75Waterloo Spring 2026: 8.06Pickering Favourites Summer 2026: 8.356.0212.3728 Nov 201514 Jun 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.

  • Brennen Lin — met in 117 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
  • Jonathan Esparaz — met in 112 rounds, finished ahead once
  • Ryan Wu — met in 110 rounds, finished ahead 11 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.02 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.59 away.

Targets move as he improves.