Overview
- CCTV reported that six-year-old Lian Yunzhi achieved a 4.27-second average at a competition in Guangzhou and video of her solves circulated online.
- The competition average follows an earlier female best of 4.52 seconds that Lian posted at an event in Wuhan as she rose quickly from a beginner at age four.
- Competition scoring uses five solves, drops the fastest and slowest times, and averages the remaining three times, which is how the 4.27 figure was calculated.
- CCTV said Lian trains two to three hours a day, knows more than 1,300 solving algorithms, and that her family traveled for specialist coaching in Shanghai.
- The claim has not been independently confirmed by the World Cube Association; the male comparable record remains Wang Yiheng's 3.51-second average, illustrating the gap between top male and reported female marks.