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Shayne Zhixing Zhao

3×3 · top 31.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2024 · 2024ZHAO40

Shayne Zhixing Zhao has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 17.14, set at Out in the Country Crossfield 2025, puts him in the top 31.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,075th in Canada. Across 5 competitions since August 2024, he has put 79 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. Shayne has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 31.4% of 284,439 all-time
17.14
signature single · Out in the Country Crossfield 2025
79
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×317.1420.27
top 31.4%3,075 / 10,392
2×24.799.04
top 36.6%2,535 / 7,173
Pyraminx11.9415.29
top 66.8%3,305 / 4,858
3×3 one-handed56.85
top 82.0%2,027 / 2,620

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

Cubing Among the Drumheller Dinosaurs 2024: 18.38Airdrie NxNs 2024: 18.67Canadian Prairie Championship 2024: 19.05Battle of Alberta 2025: 19.03Out in the Country Crossfield 2025: 17.1417.1419.0524 Aug 20243 May 2025

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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 2.14 away.
  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.79 away.

Targets move as he improves.