People · China
Zitian Jin (晋子天)
3×3 · top 7.4% of 288,433 all-time · competing since August 2017 · 2017JINZ03
Zitian Jin (晋子天) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.97, set at Xi'an Summer 2025, puts him in the top 7.4% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,948th in China. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since August 2017, he has put 241 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 73% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His Skewb best has come down from 7.60 in August 2017 to 4.22, a 44% improvement. Zitian has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% 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 | 9.97 | 15.83 | top 7.4% | 2,948 / 28,499 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.75 | 6.41 | top 11.7% | 1,420 / 10,269 | |
| Skewb | 4.22 | 6.25 | top 12.5% | 760 / 5,030 | |
| 2×2 | 3.69 | 5.03 | top 22.6% | 3,772 / 15,939 |
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, Skewb. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 19 Jul 2025First sub-10 3×3: 9.97 at Xi'an Summer 2025.
- 5 Aug 2018First sub-15 3×3: 14.15 at Ningxia Open 2018.
- 3 Feb 2018First sub-20 3×3: 16.49 at Inner Mongolia Winter 2018.
- 3 Feb 2018Four personal bests in one day at Inner Mongolia Winter 2018.
- 5 Aug 2017First competition: Inner Mongolia Summer 2017. A 23.32 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Xi'an Summer 2025 · 19 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Ordos Winter 2020 · 11 Jan 2020 — 1 personal best set
- China Championship 2019 · 26 Jul 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Inner Mongolia Winter 2019 · 26 Jan 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Ningxia Open 2018 · 5 Aug 2018 — 1 personal best set
- Linfen Open 2018 · 8 Jul 2018
- Weihai Open 2018 · 12 May 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- Inner Mongolia Winter 2018 · 3 Feb 2018 — 4 personal bests set
- Inner Mongolia Summer 2017 · 5 Aug 2017
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.
- Kaiyang Gao (高凯阳) — met in 23 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Linxiao Xu (徐林霄) — met in 22 rounds, never finished ahead
- Zongyang Li (李宗阳) — met in 21 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 1.97 away.
- A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 10,050 people have one; it is 0.75 away.
Targets move as he improves.