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Zihang Lin (林子杭)

3×3 · top 0.75% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2013 · 2013LINZ04

Zihang Lin (林子杭) has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.38, set at China's 10th Anniversary Championship 2017, puts him in the top 0.75% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 280th in China. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 31 competitions since July 2013, he has put 896 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 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. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.28 in July 2013 to 6.38, a 52% improvement. Zihang has entered 31 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.75% of 284,439 all-time
6.38
signature single · China's 10th Anniversary Championship 2017
896
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
3×36.388.91
top 0.75%280 / 28,153
2×21.243.67
top 1.2%128 / 15,796
3×3 one-handed12.7114.90
top 4.0%349 / 5,922
4×432.2834.40
top 4.4%428 / 5,926
Skewb3.113.95
top 5.5%307 / 5,004
5×51:01.331:06.83
top 6.2%298 / 2,816
Square-111.1314.95
top 8.2%118 / 1,362
Pyraminx5.456.23
top 16.1%1,888 / 10,224
7×74:07.484:09.51
early days — 3 solves653 / 1,261
3×3 Fewest Moves37 moves41.33
early days — 3 solves409 / 1,058
3×3 blindfolded3:42.50—
early days — 1 solve885 / 1,183

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

Shantou Open 2013: 13.28Shantou Open 2014: 10.78Guangdong Open 2014: 9.80Shantou Open 2016: 9.31Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2016: 10.50Asian Championship 2016: 8.40Dongguan Open 2017: 8.20GDSY Open 2017: 8.10Guangzhou SCUT 2017: 7.70China Championship 2017: 8.38Shantou Open 2017: 9.56China's 10th Anniversary Championship 2017: 6.38Dongguan Open 2018: 8.39GDSY Open 2018: 8.53Guangdong Open 2018: 8.16Dongguan Summer 2019: 8.56Guangzhou Good Afternoon 2020: 8.64Shenzhen Open 2023: 8.15Tianjin Open 2024: 8.58Beijing Winter 2025: 8.65Luoyang Spring 2025: 7.96Beijing Summer 2025: 7.83Beijing University Cube League 2025: 8.56Beijing Only 3x3 2025: 6.62Beijing Spring Open 2026: 7.48Beijing Autumn Begins 2026: 7.54Ulanqab Small Cubes 2026: 7.646.3813.2819 Jul 201329 Aug 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.38 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.24 away.

Targets move as he improves.