People · China
Mingzhu Zheng (郑名竹)
3×3 · top 0.34% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2024 · 2024ZHEN13
Mingzhu Zheng (郑名竹) has been competing for 2 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.72, set at Shenyang Autumn 2025, puts her in the top 0.34% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 137th in China. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since June 2024, she has put 135 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 6.77 in June 2024 to 5.72, a 16% improvement. Mingzhu has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% 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 | 5.72 | 6.90 | top 0.34% | 137 / 28,153 | |
| 2×2 | 2.59 | 4.42 | top 9.8% | 1,481 / 15,796 |
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. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 1 Jun 2024First competition: Tianjin Open 2024. A 6.85 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Shenyang Autumn 2025 · 21 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Zibo Open 2025 · 10 Aug 2025
- Harbin Open 2025 · 20 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Beijing Summer 2025 · 17 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Shenyang Spring 2025 · 13 Apr 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Harbin Open 2024 · 27 Oct 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Dalian Open 2024 · 16 Sep 2024
- Dandong Yalu River Open 2024 · 29 Jun 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Tianjin Open 2024 · 1 Jun 2024 — 1 personal best set
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 her.
- Heyu Fu (付荷语) — met in 25 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
- Zhaokun Li (李昭昆) — met in 24 rounds, never finished ahead
- Yize Dong (董一泽) — met in 23 rounds, finished ahead 10 times
Next targets
- A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.72 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.59 away.
Targets move as she improves.