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Zhijun Li (李芷筠)

3×3 · top 6.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2015 · 2015LIZH02

Zhijun Li (李芷筠) has been competing for 11 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.50, set at Nanchang Summer Is Coming 2018, puts her in the top 6.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,356th in China. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 48 competitions since June 2015, she has put 871 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 83% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 18.30 in June 2015 to 9.50, a 48% improvement. Zhijun has entered 48 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.1% of 284,439 all-time
9.50
signature single · Nanchang Summer Is Coming 2018
871
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 83% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×39.5013.00
top 6.1%2,356 / 28,153
3×3 Fewest Moves28 moves38.67
top 9.9%98 / 1,058
2×22.995.32
top 14.1%2,207 / 15,796
3×3 one-handed18.0022.34
top 15.1%1,488 / 5,922
Skewb5.997.85
top 25.6%1,585 / 5,004
Pyraminx6.7810.53
top 26.1%2,933 / 10,224
4×455.9058.83
top 31.8%3,207 / 5,926
5×51:41.741:50.53
top 36.7%1,655 / 2,816
Megaminx1:43.931:56.74
top 37.0%1,086 / 1,678
Clock19.5022.98
top 63.2%1,410 / 1,843
6×63:54.784:28.55
top 63.7%1,121 / 1,349
7×76:57.557:11.88
early days — 3 solves1,176 / 1,261

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

Nanchang Open 2015: 18.30China Championship 2015: 14.71Xi'an Open 2015: 13.86Nanchang Winter 2015: 15.01Shanghai Spring 2016: 14.07Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2016: 14.87Nanjing Spring 2016: 13.52Cube of Odd Numbers 2016: 15.31Nanchang Open 2016: 13.94Chongqing Open 2016: 13.23Xining Summer Open 2016: 13.54Asian Championship 2016: 13.74Wuhan Open 2016: 11.73Hangzhou Autumn 2016: 14.91XJTU Open 2016: 13.00Nanchang Winter 2016: 15.64Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2017: 12.25Nanchang Spring 2017: 14.33Quanzhou Open 2017: 12.93Inner Mongolia Summer 2017: 13.29Ningxia Open 2017: 14.37Xuchang Open 2017: 11.32Hefei Open 2017: 14.04Nanchang Open 2017: 13.52WHU Rubik's Cube Days 2017: 12.76Jinhua New Year's Day 2018: 15.23Qinhuangdao Open 2018: 11.60Nanchang Summer Is Coming 2018: 9.50Shanghai Love in ECNU 2018: 12.13Nanchang Dragon-boat Open 2018: 14.12Nanchang Medium & Small Cubes 2018: 13.04Nanning Open 2018: 13.35Qianjiang Summer Open 2018: 11.64Jiujiang Open 2018: 12.51Wuhan University Open 2018: 11.30WIT Open 2018: 13.04Hangzhou Open 2018: 11.67Qinhuangdao Winter 2018: 12.87WHUT Open 2018: 14.94Dongguan Open 2019: 12.79Hong Kong Cube Day 2019: 13.56Jieyang Winter 2019: 11.98Nanchang Open 2019: 12.66Urumqi Open 2019: 13.52Nanchang Winter 2019: 12.829.5018.3014 Jun 201521 Dec 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.50 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.99 away.

Targets move as she improves.