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Zhengli Ning (宁郑立)

2×2 · top 0.64% of 186,767 all-time · competing since June 2017 · 2017NING02

Zhengli Ning (宁郑立) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.04, set at Huzhou Open 2019, puts him in the top 0.64% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 64th in China. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since June 2017, he has put 426 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 93% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 2×2 best has come down from 5.01 in June 2017 to 1.04, a 79% improvement. Zhengli has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.64% of 186,767 all-time
1.04
signature single · Huzhou Open 2019
426
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 93% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
2×21.042.40
top 0.64%64 / 15,796
3×37.4810.11
top 1.9%694 / 28,153
4×428.5230.80
top 2.0%195 / 5,926
5×555.401:02.44
top 3.5%159 / 2,816
6×62:07.312:13.17
top 14.2%304 / 1,349
Clock7.879.64
top 14.6%314 / 1,843
3×3 one-handed17.9822.65
top 15.0%1,483 / 5,922
Skewb4.677.14
top 15.7%974 / 5,004
Pyraminx5.778.85
top 18.3%2,104 / 10,224
7×73:27.733:34.16
top 19.0%392 / 1,261
3×3 blindfolded1:30.951:42.66
top 23.4%321 / 1,183

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

ZUST Open 2017: 5.01China Championship 2017: 4.78HDU Open 2017: 3.35Hangzhou Spring 2018: 2.79WCA Asian Championship 2018: 2.47Hangzhou Open 2018: 2.20Hangzhou Open 2019: 1.90Huzhou Open 2019: 1.04China Championship 2019: 1.71Hangzhou Autumn 2019: 1.37Hangzhou Spring 2024: 1.881.045.0110 Jun 20172 Mar 2024

Best single per competition, 2×2. 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 0.04 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.48 away.

Targets move as he improves.