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Zihao Qian (钱梓豪)
3×3 · top 0.21% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2024 · 2024QIAN08
Zihao Qian (钱梓豪) has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.38, set at Deqing Small Cubes Summer 2024, puts him in the top 0.21% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 88th in China. Until April 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since August 2024, he has put 105 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 18% around a typical one; 98% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Zihao has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 5.38 | 6.95 | top 0.21% | 88 / 28,153 | |
| Skewb | 1.32 | 1.83 | top 0.24% | 17 / 5,004 |
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
- 25 Aug 2024First competition: Deqing Small Cubes Summer 2024. A 6.17 3×3 single to start from.
- 25 Aug 2024Three personal bests in one day at Deqing Small Cubes Summer 2024.
Competitions
- Yancheng Open 2025 · 7 Jun 2025
- Linhai Newcomers 2025 · 15 Mar 2025
- Yancheng Open 2024 · 21 Dec 2024
- Hangzhou Open 2024 · 15 Dec 2024
- Deqing Small Cubes Summer 2024 · 25 Aug 2024 — 3 personal bests 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.
- Ruimin Yan (颜瑞民) — met in 16 rounds, finished ahead 16 times
- Shangtong Fu (傅上桐) — met in 16 rounds, finished ahead 15 times
- Zhiyuan Xue (薛智远) — met in 15 rounds, finished ahead 13 times
Next targets
- A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.38 away.
- A sub-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.32 away.
Targets move as he improves.