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Zihang Xu (徐梓航)

3×3 · top 74.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2013 · 2013XUZI01

Zihang Xu (徐梓航) has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 38.30, set at Longyan Open 2018, puts him in the top 74.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 21,783rd in China. Across 7 competitions since December 2013, he has put 86 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:37.16 in December 2013 to 38.30, a 61% improvement. Zihang has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 74.8% of 284,439 all-time
38.30
signature single · Longyan Open 2018
86
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×338.3045.56
top 74.8%21,783 / 28,153
2×29.8515.05
top 77.4%12,528 / 15,796
Pyraminx16.3818.12
top 86.2%8,500 / 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

Fuzhou Open 2013: 1:37.16Fuzhou Open 2014: 1:14.12Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2014: 1:03.76Fuzhou Open 2015: 57.07Fuzhou Open 2016: 45.09Fuzhou Open 2017: 52.77Longyan Open 2018: 38.3038.301:37.1615 Dec 20135 Aug 2018

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-30 3×3 single — 177,856 people have one; it is 8.30 away.
  • A sub-8 2×2 single — 126,624 people have one; it is 1.85 away.

Targets move as he improves.