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Ziheng Ma (马子恒)

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 1.0% of 12,418 all-time · competing since August 2012 · 2012MAZI01

Ziheng Ma (马子恒) has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 20 moves, set at Cube of Odd Numbers 2016, puts him in the top 1.0% of the 12,418 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 18th in China. Across 31 competitions since August 2012, he has put 729 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 98% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.96 in August 2012 to 10.10, a 37% improvement. Ziheng has entered 31 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 1.0% of 12,418 all-time
20 moves
signature single · Cube of Odd Numbers 2016
729
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 98% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×3 Fewest Moves20 moves26.67
top 1.0%18 / 1,071
7×72:32.482:48.35
top 4.2%82 / 1,274
4×432.3436.02
top 4.5%450 / 5,999
6×61:45.441:50.55
top 5.7%126 / 1,363
5×51:02.371:04.91
top 6.9%338 / 2,857
3×310.1011.54
top 7.8%3,089 / 28,499
3×3 one-handed14.8917.06
top 8.0%787 / 5,994
Megaminx58.811:03.17
top 9.4%245 / 1,693
2×23.414.59
top 19.2%3,175 / 15,939
Pyraminx6.9212.58
top 27.3%3,088 / 10,269
Skewb6.509.14
top 29.8%1,855 / 5,030

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

Beijing Summer 2012: 15.96Beijing Winter 2012: 15.86Hefei Open 2013: 12.64Wuxi Open 2015: 11.34China Championship 2015: 12.44Beijing Open 2015: 11.66Xi'an New Year 2016: 11.16Shanghai Spring 2016: 11.98One Night in Beijing 2016: 10.71Cube of Odd Numbers 2016: 11.44Hefei Open 2016: 10.17Nanchang Open 2017: 10.99Tangshan Open 2018: 10.26Tianjin Summer Open 2018: 10.47Urumqi Open 2019: 10.10Start of Summer Beijing 2026: 10.6810.1015.9612 Aug 20121 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-2:00 7×7 single — 86 people have one; it is 32.48 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,465 people have one; it is 2.34 away.

Targets move as he improves.