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Zhanchen Gao (高占辰)

3×3 · top 9.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2018 · 2018GAOZ04

Zhanchen Gao (高占辰) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.62, set at Beijing Summer 2018, puts him in the top 9.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,651st in China. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 2 competitions since July 2018, he has put 57 official solves on the record across six events. Zhanchen has entered two competitions.

3×3
best event — top 9.3% of 284,439 all-time
10.62
signature single · Beijing Summer 2018
57
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×310.6212.94
top 9.3%3,651 / 28,153
4×439.6351.34
top 11.7%1,241 / 5,926
2×24.246.73
top 29.6%5,059 / 15,796
3×3 one-handed23.8326.20
top 31.0%3,003 / 5,922
Pyraminx7.739.74
top 34.0%3,734 / 10,224
5×52:05.122:08.37
top 52.4%2,159 / 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

Beijing Summer 2018: 10.62Longyan Open 2018: 11.5310.6211.5329 Jul 20185 Aug 2018

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 0.62 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 9.63 away.

Targets move as he improves.