People · China
Zheqi Xie (谢哲麒)
Pyraminx · top 2.3% of 130,891 all-time · competing since June 2018 · 2018XIEZ03
Zheqi Xie (谢哲麒) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 2.53, set at Xi'an Summer 2025, puts him in the top 2.3% of the 130,891 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 281st in China. Until January 2011, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since June 2018, he has put 377 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 94% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 28.51 in June 2018 to 8.09, a 72% improvement. Zheqi has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyraminx | 2.53 | 5.65 | top 2.3% | 281 / 10,269 | |
| 2×2 | 1.53 | 2.02 | top 2.3% | 273 / 15,939 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 11.45 | 14.60 | top 2.3% | 201 / 5,994 | |
| 3×3 | 8.09 | 9.81 | top 3.0% | 1,101 / 28,499 | |
| 4×4 | 33.58 | 39.57 | top 5.5% | 563 / 5,999 | |
| Megaminx | 54.98 | 58.29 | top 7.5% | 186 / 1,693 | |
| Skewb | 3.65 | 5.66 | top 8.7% | 503 / 5,030 | |
| Square-1 | 14.76 | 18.03 | top 15.9% | 246 / 1,373 | |
| 5×5 | 1:15.90 | 1:18.33 | top 16.1% | 804 / 2,857 | |
| Clock | 9.14 | 10.37 | top 20.6% | 469 / 1,887 | |
| 6×6 | 2:49.72 | 2:52.88 | early days — 3 solves | 758 / 1,363 | |
| 7×7 | 5:17.35 | — | early days — 1 solve | 969 / 1,274 |
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
- 19 Jul 2025Three personal bests in one day at Xi'an Summer 2025.
- 22 Jun 2025First sub-10 3×3: 8.73 at Yunnan Open 2025.
- 22 Jun 2025Eight personal bests in one day at Yunnan Open 2025.
- 24 Aug 2019Six personal bests in one day at Shenzhen Cubing 10th Anniversary 2019.
- 26 Jul 2019Five personal bests in one day at China Championship 2019.
- 20 Apr 2019First sub-15 3×3: 14.26 at Kunshan Open 2019.
Competitions
- Shanghai Summer 2026 · 1 Aug 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Chengdu Embracing Summer 2026 · 5 May 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Zhengzhou Zeal 2025 · 28 Dec 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Xi'an Summer 2025 · 19 Jul 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Yunnan Open 2025 · 22 Jun 2025 — 8 personal bests set
- Shanghai Open 2019 · 19 Oct 2019
- Shenzhen Cubing 10th Anniversary 2019 · 24 Aug 2019 — 6 personal bests set
- China Championship 2019 · 26 Jul 2019 — 5 personal bests set
- Kunshan Open 2019 · 20 Apr 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- China Championship 2018 · 2 Oct 2018 — 3 personal bests set
- SJTU Open 2018 · 30 Jun 2018
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.
- Haohan Zheng (郑皓涵) — met in 29 rounds, finished ahead 10 times
- Zhiyuan Ma (马之元) — met in 29 rounds, finished ahead once
- Zijian Cai (蔡子健) — met in 29 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,497 people have one; it is 0.53 away.
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.53 away.
Targets move as he improves.