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Zhouyao Zhu (朱洲瑶)

Clock · top 3.0% of 32,048 all-time · competing since June 2017 · 2017ZHUZ04

Zhouyao Zhu (朱洲瑶) has been competing for 9 years. Her best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 4.33, set at Evanston Qualifier 2025, puts her in the top 3.0% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 51st in China. Until June 2015, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 32 competitions since June 2017, she has put 762 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 24.65 in June 2017 to 11.36, a 54% improvement. Zhouyao has entered 32 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 3.0% of 32,048 all-time
4.33
signature single · Evanston Qualifier 2025
762
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
Clock4.335.53
top 3.0%51 / 1,843
Pyraminx3.144.57
top 4.1%500 / 10,224
Square-112.6518.84
top 11.2%170 / 1,362
3×311.3613.42
top 11.6%4,589 / 28,153
2×22.994.59
top 14.1%2,207 / 15,796
Skewb5.086.95
top 18.8%1,167 / 5,004
4×455.461:01.45
top 31.3%3,160 / 5,926
3×3 one-handed24.8830.06
top 33.9%3,235 / 5,922
5×51:40.941:52.89
top 36.1%1,622 / 2,816
3×3 blindfolded3:36.57—
top 62.6%866 / 1,183
3×3 Fewest Moves45 moves—
early days — 2 solves774 / 1,058
6×65:00.145:41.86
early days — 3 solves1,288 / 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

ZUST Open 2017: 24.65Hangzhou Spring 2018: 18.65Hangzhou Open 2018: 16.77Shaoxing Morning 2021: 14.60Beijing Spring PM 2021: 16.07Hangzhou Open PM 2021: 15.00Florida Spring B 2022: 13.73Koalafication Melbourne 2022: 12.87Melbourne Cube Days 2022: 11.82Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2022: 13.17Melbourne Summer 2023: 12.61Singapore Championship 2023: 13.36Brilliant Ballarat 2023: 12.10Evanston Fall Mini B 2023: 12.76Bay Area Speedcubin' 58 - Berkeley 2024: 12.03Chicago Area Twist Spring A 2024: 12.44Washtenaw Qualifiers 2024: 12.38Bay Area Speedcubin' 63 - Atherton 2024: 11.36Washtenaw Fall 2024: 11.67Hangzhou Open 2024: 12.45Yancheng Open 2024: 12.41Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 11.85North Sound Spring 2026: 12.82Dawgs at Denny UW 2026: 12.0811.3624.6510 Jun 20179 May 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-4 Clock single — 741 people have one; it is 0.33 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.14 away.

Targets move as she improves.