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Zhenyu Gao (高振宇)

3×3 · top 10.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2018 · 2018GAOZ03

Zhenyu Gao (高振宇) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.05, set at Xi'an New Year 2025, puts him in the top 10.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,155th in China. Across 6 competitions since July 2018, he has put 172 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. Zhenyu has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 10.6% of 284,439 all-time
11.05
signature single · Xi'an New Year 2025
172
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×311.0512.05
top 10.6%4,155 / 28,153
2×22.804.69
top 12.0%1,860 / 15,796
Pyraminx4.895.69
top 12.5%1,498 / 10,224
3×3 one-handed17.5726.73
top 14.0%1,393 / 5,922
Megaminx1:22.761:29.10
top 23.6%716 / 1,678
4×450.2254.51
top 25.0%2,654 / 5,926
5×51:29.901:38.15
top 27.2%1,257 / 2,816
3×3 Fewest Moves36 moves39.33
early days — 3 solves369 / 1,058
Skewb9.0210.97
top 48.5%2,771 / 5,004
6×63:29.12
early days — 1 solve1,005 / 1,349

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

Linfen Open 2018: 11.79Chengdu Winter Open 2018: 15.68Xi'an New Year 2025: 11.05Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2025: 12.16Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2026: 12.0411.0515.688 Jul 20184 Apr 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.05 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.80 away.

Targets move as he improves.