People · United States
Byron Jin
3×3 · top 0.95% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2017 · 2017JINB01
Byron Jin has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.61, set at Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023, puts him in the top 0.95% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 594th in the United States. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since August 2017, he has put 629 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 50% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.23 in August 2017 to 6.61, a 41% improvement. Byron has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 6.61 | 9.06 | top 0.95% | 594 / 59,724 | |
| 5×5 | 58.76 | 1:07.99 | top 4.9% | 403 / 9,401 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 13.48 | 18.37 | top 5.2% | 739 / 15,683 | |
| 6×6 | 1:47.40 | 1:51.87 | top 6.3% | 211 / 4,196 | |
| 4×4 | 35.43 | 41.49 | top 7.1% | 1,093 / 19,072 | |
| 7×7 | 2:51.57 | 2:55.08 | top 8.3% | 228 / 3,184 | |
| Pyraminx | 6.58 | 8.84 | top 24.5% | 6,675 / 28,708 | |
| Megaminx | 1:31.44 | 1:43.82 | top 29.1% | 2,033 / 7,841 | |
| 2×2 | 4.45 | 4.93 | top 32.3% | 12,833 / 40,951 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 2:07.43 | — | top 35.9% | 749 / 2,092 | |
| Square-1 | 26.64 | 33.63 | top 42.7% | 2,768 / 6,743 | |
| Skewb | 10.29 | 11.91 | top 56.7% | 10,323 / 18,907 |
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
- 18 Jul 2024Three personal bests in one day at Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024.
- 12 Aug 2023Three personal bests in one day at Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023.
- 25 Feb 2023Three personal bests in one day at Vienna Fasching 2023.
- 10 Dec 2022Three personal bests in one day at Frozen Cubes İstanbul 2022.
- 24 Jan 2020Three personal bests in one day at Washington Championship 2020.
- 10 Aug 2018Seven personal bests in one day at CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2018.
Competitions
- Dawgs at Denny UW 2026 · 9 May 2026
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025 · 3 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024 · 18 Jul 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023 · 12 Aug 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Bangkok Cube Day Rainy 2023 · 22 Jul 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Vienna Fasching 2023 · 25 Feb 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Frozen Cubes İstanbul 2022 · 10 Dec 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Welcome Back Portland 2022 · 12 Mar 2022 — 1 personal best set
- SnoCo Goes Back to Square-1 2021 · 20 Nov 2021 — 2 personal bests set
- Washington Championship 2020 · 24 Jan 2020 — 3 personal bests set
- SnoCo Feet Fest 2019 · 13 Apr 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Puget Sound NxNxN 2018 · 8 Dec 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- SnoCo Fall 2018 · 17 Nov 2018 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2018 · 10 Aug 2018 — 7 personal bests set
- SnoCo Summer 2018 · 20 Jul 2018 — 6 personal bests set
- Puget Sound Spring 2018 · 21 Apr 2018 — 4 personal bests set
- Skyline Open 2018 · 27 Jan 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- Puget Sound Winter 2.0 2017 · 2 Dec 2017 — 2 personal bests set
- SnoCo Cubing Fall 2017 · 21 Oct 2017 — 2 personal bests set
- Northwest Championships 2017 · 11 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.
- Benjamin Gottschalk — met in 113 rounds, finished ahead 24 times
- Sameer Aggarwal — met in 112 rounds, finished ahead 19 times
- Max Siauw — met in 107 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.61 away.
- A sub-50 5×5 single — 713 people have one; it is 8.76 away.
Targets move as he improves.