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Zizhen Li (李子贞)

Pyraminx · top 0.17% of 129,321 all-time · competing since January 2024 · 2024LIZI01

Zizhen Li (李子贞) has been competing for 3 years. Her best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.24, set at Guangzhou Special 2025, puts her in the top 0.17% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 15th in China. Until January 2018, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 27 competitions since January 2024, she has put 1,063 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 58% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her Pyraminx best has come down from 2.04 in March 2024 to 1.24, a 39% improvement. Zizhen has entered 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.17% of 129,321 all-time
1.24
signature single · Guangzhou Special 2025
1,063
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 58% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
Pyraminx1.242.09
top 0.17%15 / 10,224
Skewb1.281.90
top 0.18%10 / 5,004
2×21.182.29
top 0.98%108 / 15,796
3×36.938.96
top 1.3%446 / 28,153
Clock6.667.73
top 9.7%210 / 1,843
4×440.5046.81
top 12.7%1,368 / 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

Luoyang Spring 2024: 2.04Shenyang Spring 2024: 2.12Zibo Open 2024: 1.92Tianjin Open 2024: 2.02Dandong Yalu River Open 2024: 1.87Dalian Open 2024: 1.71Harbin Open 2024: 2.20Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2024: 1.99Hangzhou Open 2024: 1.81Luoyang Spring 2025: 1.89Xuzhou Newcomers 2025: 1.93Shenyang Spring 2025: 2.12Beijing Summer 2025: 1.58Yancheng Open 2025: 2.24Yunnan Open 2025: 2.19Harbin Open 2025: 2.02Shenyang Autumn 2025: 2.25Guangzhou Special 2025: 1.24Beijing Winter 2026: 1.62Fuzhou Open 2026: 1.98Beijing Spring Open 2026: 1.91Xuzhou Zenith 2026: 1.87Chengdu Embracing Summer 2026: 1.63Nanchang Summer 2026: 2.37Beijing Autumn Begins 2026: 1.631.242.3710 Mar 202422 Aug 2026

Best single per competition, Pyraminx. 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.24 away.
  • A sub-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.28 away.

Targets move as she improves.