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Zhiyuan Xue (薛智远)
Pyraminx · top 0.28% of 130,891 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024XUEZ01
Zhiyuan Xue (薛智远) has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.36, set at Nanchang Spring 2025, puts him in the top 0.28% of the 130,891 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 30th in China. Until March 2013, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 24 competitions since March 2024, he has put 806 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 62% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 7.54 in March 2024 to 5.93, a 21% improvement. Zhiyuan has entered 24 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyraminx | 1.36 | 2.76 | top 0.28% | 30 / 10,269 | |
| 3×3 | 5.93 | 6.82 | top 0.45% | 176 / 28,499 | |
| 2×2 | 1.26 | 2.42 | top 1.2% | 143 / 15,939 | |
| Skewb | 2.38 | 3.13 | top 2.5% | 129 / 5,030 | |
| Clock | 8.63 | 10.50 | top 18.0% | 414 / 1,887 |
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
- 21 Sep 2024Three personal bests in one day at Xuzhou Autumn 2024.
- 19 May 2024Three personal bests in one day at Zibo Open 2024.
- 14 Apr 2024Three personal bests in one day at Kunshan Open 2024.
- 10 Mar 2024First competition: Luoyang Spring 2024. A 9.19 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Beijing Autumn Rivalry 2026 · 1 Oct 2026
- Shanghai Summer 2026 · 1 Aug 2026
- Xuzhou Zenith 2026 · 11 Apr 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Yancheng Spring Open 2026 · 29 Mar 2026
- Zhengzhou Zest 2025 · 27 Dec 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Xuzhou Open 2025 · 16 Nov 2025
- Zhengzhou Summer IV 2025 · 24 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Zibo Open 2025 · 10 Aug 2025
- Yancheng Open 2025 · 7 Jun 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Nanchang Spring 2025 · 26 Apr 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Xuzhou Newcomers 2025 · 30 Mar 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Luoyang Spring 2025 · 1 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Yancheng Open 2024 · 21 Dec 2024
- Hangzhou Open 2024 · 15 Dec 2024
- Xuzhou Autumn 2024 · 21 Sep 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Dalian Open 2024 · 16 Sep 2024
- Deqing Small Cubes Summer 2024 · 25 Aug 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Chengdu Summer 2024 · 20 Jul 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Dandong Yalu River Open 2024 · 29 Jun 2024
- Zibo Open 2024 · 19 May 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Nanchang Spring 2024 · 21 Apr 2024
- Kunshan Open 2024 · 14 Apr 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Xuzhou Open 2024 · 30 Mar 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Luoyang Spring 2024 · 10 Mar 2024 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Chenhao Ma (马晨皓) — met in 104 rounds, finished ahead 52 times
- Kaixi Guo (郭铠希) — met in 103 rounds, finished ahead 25 times
- Ruimin Yan (颜瑞民) — met in 91 rounds, finished ahead 84 times
Next targets
- A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.36 away.
- A sub-5 3×3 single — 355 people have one; it is 0.93 away.
Targets move as he improves.