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Yusheng Zheng (郑煜升)

4×4 · top 0.12% of 83,917 all-time · competing since November 2023 · 2023ZHEN26

Yusheng Zheng (郑煜升) has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 21.18, set at Zhanjiang Open 2026, puts him in the top 0.12% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 15th in China. Until June 2017, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since November 2023, he has put 431 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 83% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 6.85 in November 2023 to 5.86, a 14% improvement. Yusheng has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 0.12% of 83,917 all-time
21.18
signature single · Zhanjiang Open 2026
431
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 83% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
4×421.1824.89
top 0.12%15 / 5,926
3×35.867.02
top 0.41%160 / 28,153
5×553.3457.58
top 2.8%118 / 2,816
3×3 one-handed12.0613.38
top 3.1%266 / 5,922
Clock4.415.89
top 3.1%54 / 1,843
2×22.232.80
top 6.5%920 / 15,796
6×62:04.002:09.69
top 12.7%271 / 1,349
7×73:37.744:09.09
early days — 3 solves452 / 1,261
Pyraminx6.959.83
top 27.5%3,068 / 10,224
3×3 Fewest Moves38 moves38.67
early days — 3 solves459 / 1,058

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

Shenzhen Youth Open 2023: 6.85Shenzhen Open 2023: 6.40Huizhou 10th Anniversary 2024: 6.40Hong Kong Cube Day 2024: 6.75Taizhou Open 2025: 6.41Guangzhou Small Cubes 2025: 6.72Guangdong Open - Revival & Rival 2026: 6.16Foshan Open 2026: 6.46Guangzhou GraDUAL 3x3 I 2026: 6.34Maoming Open 2026: 7.23Zhanjiang Open 2026: 5.86Guangzhou GraDUAL 3x3 II 2026: 6.675.867.2326 Nov 202319 Aug 2026

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-20 4×4 single — 42 people have one; it is 1.18 away.
  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.86 away.

Targets move as he improves.