People · China
Zixingchen Chen (陈子星晨)
3×3 · top 0.43% of 288,433 all-time · competing since July 2025 · 2025CHEZ02
Zixingchen Chen (陈子星晨) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.89, set at Quanzhou Summer 2026, puts him in the top 0.43% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 168th in China. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since July 2025, he has put 109 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 87% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Zixingchen has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% 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 | 5.89 | 7.59 | top 0.43% | 168 / 28,499 | |
| 2×2 | 2.31 | 4.11 | top 7.2% | 1,035 / 15,939 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 14.61 | 17.71 | top 7.4% | 725 / 5,994 | |
| 4×4 | 35.89 | 41.39 | top 7.6% | 807 / 5,999 |
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
- 26 Jul 2025First competition: Taizhou Open 2025. A 7.53 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Fuzhou Summer 2026 · 23 Aug 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Zhangzhou Open 2026 · 27 Jun 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Quanzhou Summer 2026 · 30 May 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Fuzhou Open 2026 · 17 Jan 2026
- Quangang Afternoon 2025 · 31 Aug 2025
- Taizhou Open 2025 · 26 Jul 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.
- Yi Chen (陈易) — met in 17 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
- Jiashun Wu (吴嘉顺) — met in 16 rounds, finished ahead 15 times
- Qifeng Wang (王祺丰) — met in 16 rounds, finished ahead 9 times
Next targets
- A sub-5 3×3 single — 355 people have one; it is 0.89 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.31 away.
Targets move as he improves.