People · China
Minghao Zhang
3×3 one-handed · top 0.37% of 74,621 all-time · competing since January 2024 · 2024ZHAN06
Minghao Zhang has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 8.64, set at Lexington Weeknights V 2025, puts him in the top 0.37% of the 74,621 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 30th in China. Until May 2015, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since January 2024, he has put 329 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 63% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 one-handed best has come down from 12.02 in January 2024 to 8.64, a 28% improvement. Minghao has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 one-handed | 8.64 | 10.24 | top 0.37% | 30 / 5,994 | |
| 3×3 | 6.38 | 8.22 | top 0.76% | 291 / 28,499 | |
| 2×2 | 2.63 | 4.55 | top 10.3% | 1,585 / 15,939 | |
| 4×4 | 40.98 | 51.83 | top 13.3% | 1,472 / 5,999 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.90 | 7.44 | top 19.3% | 2,234 / 10,269 | |
| 5×5 | 2:12.17 | — | early days — 2 solves | 2,313 / 2,857 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3 one-handed. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 16 Mar 2024Three personal bests in one day at Cubes on the Bayside Spring 2024.
- 14 Jan 2024First competition: Cubes on the Bayside Winter 2024. A 7.73 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Long Island Back to School 2026 · 5 Sep 2026
- Side Events in Palisades 2026 · 5 Apr 2026
- Brown Cubing Day 2026 · 21 Feb 2026
- Lexington Weeknights V 2025 · 11 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Binghamton Summer 2025 · 19 Jul 2025
- Long Island Summer 2025 · 12 Jul 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- NYU Spring 2025 · 13 Apr 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Side Events in Nyack 2024 · 28 Sep 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Cubing in the Ocean County 2024 · 29 Jun 2024 — 1 personal best set
- New Rochelle at Nite 3 2024 · 27 Jun 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Cubes on the Bayside Spring 2024 · 16 Mar 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- NYU Winter 2024 · 2 Mar 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Cubes on the Bayside Winter 2024 · 14 Jan 2024
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.
- Evan Liu — met in 42 rounds, finished ahead 22 times
- Ayden Dincher — met in 41 rounds, finished ahead 16 times
- Parker Trager — met in 34 rounds, finished ahead 10 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 155 people have one; it is 0.64 away.
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.38 away.
Targets move as he improves.