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Xingye Zhu (朱星晔)

3×3 one-handed · top 1.8% of 73,695 all-time · competing since May 2015 · 2015ZHUX01

Xingye Zhu (朱星晔) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 10.91, set at Nanjing Autumn 2017, puts him in the top 1.8% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 147th in China. Until July 2011, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since May 2015, he has put 416 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.13 in May 2015 to 8.01, a 28% improvement. Xingye has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 1.8% of 73,695 all-time
10.91
signature single · Nanjing Autumn 2017
416
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 56% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×3 one-handed10.9111.97
top 1.8%147 / 5,922
3×38.019.80
top 2.8%1,011 / 28,153
3×3 Fewest Moves28 moves32.00
top 9.9%98 / 1,058
3×3 blindfolded1:18.043:00.40
top 18.9%263 / 1,183
3×3 Multi-Blind5 of 5 cubes · 29:35
early days — 2 solves102 / 278

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

Nanjing Spring 2015: 11.13Hefei Open 2015: 9.68China Championship 2015: 11.19Nanjing Autumn 2015: 8.49Nanjing Spring 2016: 11.03Nanjing Spring 2017: 9.59China Championship 2017: 9.40Wuxi Open 2017: 9.50Yangzhou Open 2017: 10.30Nanjing Autumn 2017: 9.74Hangzhou Spring 2018: 8.22Shanghai Love in ECNU 2018: 9.32Nanning Open 2018: 9.23Wuxi Autumn 2018: 8.85Nanjing Autumn 2018: 10.52Nanchang Open 2019: 8.018.0111.191 May 201520 Apr 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 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 0.91 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.01 away.

Targets move as he improves.