Sunday 6 September 2026 Rebuilt nightly from the WCA's official results · export of 6 September 2026 · About
The Middle Three
People → China → Yiming Zhou (周一鸣)

People · China

Yiming Zhou (周一鸣)

3×3 · top 13.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2009 · 2009ZHOU06

Yiming Zhou (周一鸣) has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.97, set at China Championship 2019, puts him in the top 13.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5,438th in China. Across 10 competitions since August 2009, he has put 93 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 81% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 32.56 in August 2009 to 11.97, a 63% improvement. Yiming has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 13.8% of 284,439 all-time
11.97
signature single · China Championship 2019
93
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 81% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×311.9714.13
top 13.8%5,438 / 28,153
4×41:11.261:23.03
top 48.1%4,402 / 5,926
2×25.877.12
top 49.5%8,466 / 15,796
3×3 one-handed32.6740.33
top 52.6%4,487 / 5,922

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

Shanghai Weisuo Open 2009: 32.56Shanghai Winter Cubing Festival 2010: 18.52Nanjing Spring Open 2010: 16.22Nanjing Winter Open 2010: 15.80Changzhou Spring Festival Open 2011: 16.58Nanjing Spring 2012: 17.65Shanghai Winter 2018: 14.51SJTU Winter Open 2018: 12.60Kunshan Open 2019: 12.25China Championship 2019: 11.9711.9732.569 Aug 200926 Jul 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 1.97 away.
  • A sub-1:00 4×4 single — 30,601 people have one; it is 11.26 away.

Targets move as he improves.