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Zihan Liu (刘子晗)

3×3 · top 3.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2023 · 2023LIUZ04

Zihan Liu (刘子晗) has been competing for 3 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.35, set at Nanchang Spring 2024, puts her in the top 3.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,280th in China. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 2 competitions since December 2023, she has put 55 official solves on the record across four events. Zihan has entered two competitions.

3×3
best event — top 3.4% of 284,439 all-time
8.35
signature single · Nanchang Spring 2024
55
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×38.359.57
top 3.4%1,280 / 28,153
Skewb3.604.40
top 8.3%473 / 5,004
2×23.333.95
top 18.1%2,949 / 15,796
Pyraminx6.527.40
top 24.0%2,727 / 10,224

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

Changsha Open 2023: 8.53Nanchang Spring 2024: 8.358.358.5323 Dec 202321 Apr 2024

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 0.35 away.
  • A sub-3 Skewb single — 3,646 people have one; it is 0.60 away.

Targets move as she improves.