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Xianqian Zou (邹贤谦)

3×3 · top 10.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2012 · 2012ZOUX01

Xianqian Zou (邹贤谦) has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.87, set at Dongguan Summer 2019, puts him in the top 10.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,949th in China. Across 17 competitions since May 2012, he has put 455 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 97% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.65 in May 2012 to 10.87, a 47% improvement. Xianqian has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 10.1% of 284,439 all-time
10.87
signature single · Dongguan Summer 2019
455
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 97% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×310.8712.57
top 10.1%3,949 / 28,153
4×438.6647.17
top 10.5%1,116 / 5,926
Pyraminx4.678.27
top 11.2%1,335 / 10,224
Skewb4.135.93
top 11.8%700 / 5,004
2×23.084.97
top 15.2%2,411 / 15,796
Square-116.9122.90
top 20.8%332 / 1,362
3×3 one-handed22.7626.15
top 28.1%2,746 / 5,922
5×51:31.261:36.75
top 28.3%1,298 / 2,816
7×74:27.864:41.56
top 40.4%760 / 1,261
6×63:01.443:16.56
top 41.8%823 / 1,349
Megaminx1:58.842:08.44
top 45.0%1,236 / 1,678
3×3 Fewest Moves41 moves
top 51.8%610 / 1,058
Clock20.1624.30
top 65.1%1,438 / 1,843

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

Guangzhou SCUT 2012: 20.65Guangdong Open 2012: 22.27Guangdong Open 2014: 17.73China Championship 2015: 13.26Guangzhou Rubik's Cube Days 2016: 12.33Huizhou Open 2016: 11.65Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2016: 11.46Asian Championship 2016: 12.79Dongguan Open 2017: 11.84GDSY Open 2017: 12.84China Championship 2017: 11.36China's 10th Anniversary Championship 2017: 11.20Dongguan Open 2018: 11.35Dongguan Summer 2019: 10.8710.8722.2720 May 20124 Aug 2019

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.87 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 8.66 away.

Targets move as he improves.