People · China
Zirui Xu (许子睿)
3×3 · top 0.092% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2025 · 2025XUZI02
Zirui Xu (许子睿) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 4.85, set at Nanchang Summer 2026, puts him in the top 0.092% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 48th in China. Until November 2016, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since March 2025, he has put 202 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 74% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 6.46 in March 2025 to 4.85, a 25% improvement. Zirui has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% 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 | 4.85 | 6.26 | top 0.092% | 48 / 28,153 | |
| 2×2 | 2.21 | 2.56 | top 6.3% | 895 / 15,796 | |
| 4×4 | 35.17 | 40.92 | top 6.9% | 691 / 5,926 |
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
- 15 Mar 2025First competition: Linhai Newcomers 2025. A 6.56 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Fuzhou Summer 2026 · 23 Aug 2026
- Shanghai Summer 2026 · 1 Aug 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Nanchang Summer 2026 · 18 Jul 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Zhangzhou Open 2026 · 27 Jun 2026
- Quanzhou Summer 2026 · 30 May 2026
- Foshan Open 2026 · 2 May 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Zhuhai Pi Day 2026 · 14 Mar 2026
- Fuzhou Open 2026 · 17 Jan 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Quangang Morning 2025 · 31 Aug 2025
- Linhai Newcomers 2025 · 15 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best 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.
- Yang Pin Xiu (楊品修) — met in 24 rounds, finished ahead 14 times
- Xi Chen (陈曦) — met in 19 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
- Zijian Cai (蔡子健) — met in 18 rounds, finished ahead 7 times
Next targets
- A sub-4 3×3 single — 38 people have one; it is 0.85 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.21 away.
Targets move as he improves.