People · China
Zining Wu (吴梓宁)
3×3 · top 5.5% of 288,433 all-time · competing since January 2025 · 2025WUZI01
Zining Wu (吴梓宁) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.24, set at Xi'an Summer 2025, puts him in the top 5.5% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,157th in China. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since January 2025, he has put 271 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.04 in January 2025 to 9.24, a 34% improvement. Zining has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% 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 | 9.24 | 11.98 | top 5.5% | 2,157 / 28,499 | |
| Clock | 5.56 | 6.46 | top 5.9% | 119 / 1,887 | |
| Square-1 | 9.92 | 12.72 | top 5.9% | 79 / 1,373 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.01 | 7.19 | top 7.7% | 926 / 10,269 | |
| 2×2 | 2.95 | 4.78 | top 13.7% | 2,170 / 15,939 | |
| Skewb | 4.49 | 7.16 | top 14.4% | 893 / 5,030 | |
| Megaminx | 1:11.33 | 1:19.71 | top 16.5% | 506 / 1,693 | |
| 3×3 Fewest Moves | 33 moves | 37.67 | top 23.5% | 248 / 1,071 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 22.63 | 29.73 | top 27.8% | 2,763 / 5,994 | |
| 4×4 | 55.45 | — | top 31.4% | 3,211 / 5,999 | |
| 5×5 | 2:14.39 | — | early days — 2 solves | 2,346 / 2,857 |
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
- 22 Aug 2026Three personal bests in one day at Beijing Autumn Begins 2026.
- 19 Jul 2025First sub-10 3×3: 9.24 at Xi'an Summer 2025.
- 19 Jul 2025Six personal bests in one day at Xi'an Summer 2025.
- 4 Jan 2025First competition: Beijing Winter 2025. A 14.04 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Dual FMC Beijing 2026 · 18 Oct 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Beijing Autumn Rivalry 2026 · 1 Oct 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Beijing Autumn Begins 2026 · 22 Aug 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- Foshan Open 2026 · 2 May 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Canton Countdown 2025 · 31 Dec 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- FMC Cubing China 2025 · 20 Dec 2025
- Zhengzhou Summer IV 2025 · 24 Aug 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- FMC Asia 2025 · 27 Jul 2025
- Xi'an Summer 2025 · 19 Jul 2025 — 6 personal bests set
- Beijing Summer 2025 · 17 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Beijing Winter 2025 · 4 Jan 2025
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.
- Xiang Li (李响) — met in 48 rounds, finished ahead 28 times
- Haohan Zheng (郑皓涵) — met in 41 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Aolin Tang (唐奥林) — met in 31 rounds, finished ahead twice
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 1.24 away.
- A sub-5 Clock single — 1,444 people have one; it is 0.56 away.
Targets move as he improves.