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Xiaozhe Zhao (赵笑哲)

3×3 · top 15.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2010 · 2010ZHAO16

Xiaozhe Zhao (赵笑哲) has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.46, set at Inner Mongolia 2012, puts him in the top 15.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 6,086th in China. Across 2 competitions since July 2010, he has put 49 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. Xiaozhe has entered two competitions.

3×3
best event — top 15.5% of 284,439 all-time
12.46
signature single · Inner Mongolia 2012
49
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×312.4614.38
top 15.5%6,086 / 28,153
3×3 one-handed27.5531.06
top 40.7%3,740 / 5,922
2×27.089.01
top 61.1%10,243 / 15,796
5×52:49.402:53.20
top 74.4%2,623 / 2,816

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

Inner Mongolia 2010: 12.80Inner Mongolia 2012: 12.4612.4612.8024 Jul 201013 May 2012

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.46 away.
  • A sub-25 3×3 one-handed single — 25,198 people have one; it is 2.55 away.

Targets move as he improves.