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Tongrui Zhu (褚桐瑞)

3×3 · top 60.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2016 · 2016ZHUT01

Tongrui Zhu (褚桐瑞) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 28.78, set at Shenyang Open 2018, puts him in the top 60.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 18,444th in China. Across 3 competitions since April 2016, he has put 42 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 41.41 in April 2016 to 28.78, a 30% improvement. Tongrui has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 60.4% of 284,439 all-time
28.78
signature single · Shenyang Open 2018
42
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×328.7832.64
top 60.4%18,444 / 28,153
2×27.3514.66
top 63.2%10,563 / 15,796
Pyraminx18.0321.51
top 89.9%8,886 / 10,224

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

Shenyang Open 2016: 41.41Shenyang Spring 2017: 31.41Shenyang Open 2018: 28.7828.7841.4123 Apr 201623 Jun 2018

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-25 3×3 single — 149,621 people have one; it is 3.78 away.
  • A sub-6 2×2 single — 95,042 people have one; it is 1.35 away.

Targets move as he improves.