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Zhaoshuai Zhong (仲昭帅)

2×2 · top 2.4% of 186,767 all-time · competing since January 2017 · 2017ZHON01

Zhaoshuai Zhong (仲昭帅) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.55, set at Taiyuan Autumn 2017, puts him in the top 2.4% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 276th in China. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 14 competitions since January 2017, he has put 734 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.81 in January 2017 to 8.96, a 50% improvement. Zhaoshuai has entered 14 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 2.4% of 186,767 all-time
1.55
signature single · Taiyuan Autumn 2017
734
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
2×21.553.53
top 2.4%276 / 15,796
3×38.9610.70
top 4.8%1,817 / 28,153
4×435.1337.88
top 6.8%687 / 5,926
3×3 one-handed14.5918.30
top 7.3%701 / 5,922
5×51:06.681:09.25
top 9.4%461 / 2,816
Skewb3.796.55
top 9.5%551 / 5,004
Pyraminx4.645.53
top 11.0%1,310 / 10,224
Megaminx1:04.361:13.18
top 12.3%335 / 1,678
6×62:03.882:14.70
top 12.6%266 / 1,349
7×73:24.823:28.52
top 18.0%376 / 1,261
Square-140.4242.49
top 65.9%1,096 / 1,362

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

Xi'an New Year 2017: 17.81ZUA Open 2017: 13.09Fuzhou Open 2017: 12.77China Championship 2017: 10.91Beijing Ten Years Open 2017: 11.27Taiyuan Autumn 2017: 10.66Inner Mongolia Winter 2018: 10.77Tianjin Summer Open 2018: 11.34Beijing Summer 2018: 11.15China Championship 2018: 10.37Linfen Open 2019: 11.28Heze Open 2019: 9.54Baoji Open 2019: 10.00Shandong Open 2019: 8.968.9617.812 Jan 20174 Oct 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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.55 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.96 away.

Targets move as he improves.