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Zhewei Wu

3×3 · top 11.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2017 · 2017WUZH04

Zhewei Wu has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.17, set at Brookline Favorites 2023, puts him in the top 11.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5,964th in the United States. Across 11 competitions since October 2017, he has put 190 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 82% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.19 in October 2017 to 11.17, a 31% improvement. Zhewei has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 11.0% of 284,439 all-time
11.17
signature single · Brookline Favorites 2023
190
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 82% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×311.1713.04
top 11.0%5,964 / 59,724
4×452.931:02.19
top 28.3%4,382 / 19,072
2×24.406.22
top 31.6%12,567 / 40,951
5×51:54.602:16.75
top 45.7%3,769 / 9,401
3×3 one-handed38.1449.44
top 62.6%8,833 / 15,683
Pyraminx11.4120.57
top 63.4%18,688 / 28,708

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

UPenn Cube Day Fall 2017: 16.19Severna Park Showdown 2017: 13.65Binghamton Winter Cube Day 2018: 13.27Rutgers Spring 2018: 15.60Connect Community 2018: 13.09Granite State 2022: 12.54Cubing in Beverly 2022: 12.91Garden City Winter 2023: 12.45New Hampshire Spring 2023: 11.22Brookline Favorites 2023: 11.17Phillips Exeter Cube Day 2025: 11.3211.1716.1922 Oct 201719 Oct 2025

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 1.17 away.
  • A sub-50 4×4 single — 20,746 people have one; it is 2.93 away.

Targets move as he improves.