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Zeng Xianwen Austin
3×3 · top 4.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024AUST01
Zeng Xianwen Austin has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.95, set at Singapore Championship 2025, puts him in the top 4.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 130th in Singapore. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since March 2024, he has put 67 official solves on the record across seven events. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.84 in March 2024 to 8.95, a 24% improvement. Zeng has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Singapore | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 8.95 | 11.60 | top 4.7% | 130 / 1,546 | |
| 4×4 | 48.49 | 58.10 | top 22.7% | 183 / 462 | |
| 2×2 | 4.09 | 5.04 | top 27.6% | 372 / 1,053 | |
| Megaminx | 1:30.62 | 1:41.49 | top 28.6% | 85 / 195 | |
| Pyraminx | 10.90 | 20.69 | top 59.8% | 427 / 645 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 6:09.02 | — | early days — 3 solves | 78 / 81 | |
| 5×5 | 3:42.86 | — | early days — 1 solve | 232 / 251 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 7 Feb 2025First sub-10 3×3: 8.95 at Singapore Championship 2025.
- 16 Mar 2024First competition: Singapore Newcomers 2024. A 11.84 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Don't DNF December Singapore 2025 · 13 Dec 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Big and Blind March Singapore 2025 · 2 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Singapore Championship 2025 · 7 Feb 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Singapore NxNxN 2024 · 15 Dec 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Mega Time Singapore 2024 · 18 Aug 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Singapore Max 2024 · 26 May 2024
- Singapore Mini 2024 · 25 May 2024
- Singapore Newcomers 2024 · 16 Mar 2024
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.
- Dylan Seah Tze Siang (谢智翔) — met in 17 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Tristan Chua Yong — met in 15 rounds, never finished ahead
- Lim Chun Yik (林峻毅) — met in 14 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.95 away.
- A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 8.49 away.
Targets move as he improves.