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Zixiong Xu (徐梓雄)

3×3 one-handed · top 0.27% of 73,695 all-time · competing since April 2017 · 2017XUZI03

Zixiong Xu (徐梓雄) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 8.29, set at Guangzhou Small Cubes 2025, puts him in the top 0.27% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 21st in China. Until May 2015, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 26 competitions since April 2017, he has put 597 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 96% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 one-handed best has come down from 19.15 in April 2017 to 8.29, a 57% improvement. Zixiong has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.27% of 73,695 all-time
8.29
signature single · Guangzhou Small Cubes 2025
597
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 96% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×3 one-handed8.2910.90
top 0.27%21 / 5,922
4×425.8331.72
top 0.94%87 / 5,926
5×547.6658.36
top 1.2%45 / 2,816
3×37.508.83
top 2.0%705 / 28,153
6×61:36.741:46.78
top 3.3%59 / 1,349
7×72:29.722:34.48
top 3.7%75 / 1,261
Megaminx47.5653.62
top 4.1%90 / 1,678
Pyraminx3.506.86
top 5.5%650 / 10,224
2×22.944.36
top 13.6%2,105 / 15,796
3×3 Fewest Moves33 moves39.33
early days — 3 solves244 / 1,058

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

Zhangzhou Spring 2017: 19.15Xiamen Open 2017: 17.05Huizhou Open 2018: 14.75Shantou Open 2018: 11.53Jieyang Winter 2019: 11.50Xiamen Open 2019: 11.26Jieyang Open 2019: 12.09Shenzhen Nanshan Open 2024: 11.62Huizhou 10th Anniversary 2024: 11.17Guilin Open 2024: 10.73Shenzhen Open 2024: 10.19Zhuhai Open 2025: 11.06Guilin Open 2025: 10.75Guangzhou Small Cubes 2025: 8.29Guangdong Open - Revival & Rival 2026: 11.20Foshan Open 2026: 10.02Liuzhou Open 2026: 10.72Huanggang Open 2026: 10.40Zhanjiang Open 2026: 10.958.2919.159 Apr 20179 Aug 2026

Best single per competition, 3×3 one-handed. 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-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 0.29 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 0.83 away.

Targets move as he improves.