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Byron Jin

3×3 · top 0.96% of 288,433 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 0.96% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 610th 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 36,406 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.

3×3
best event — top 0.96% of 288,433 all-time
6.61
signature single · Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023
629
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 50% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.619.06
top 0.96%610 / 60,666
5×558.761:07.99
top 5.0%415 / 9,537
3×3 one-handed13.4818.37
top 5.3%754 / 15,900
6×61:47.401:51.87
top 6.4%217 / 4,262
4×435.4341.49
top 7.2%1,118 / 19,354
7×72:51.572:55.08
top 8.4%231 / 3,236
Pyraminx6.588.84
top 24.5%6,785 / 29,168
Megaminx1:31.441:43.82
top 29.2%2,082 / 8,026
2×24.454.93
top 32.4%13,064 / 41,674
3×3 blindfolded2:07.43—
top 36.0%759 / 2,128
Square-126.6433.63
top 42.8%2,815 / 6,846
Skewb10.2911.91
top 56.7%10,475 / 19,164

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

Northwest Championships 2017: 11.23SnoCo Cubing Fall 2017: 13.20Puget Sound Winter 2.0 2017: 12.36Skyline Open 2018: 13.03Puget Sound Spring 2018: 9.78SnoCo Summer 2018: 10.00CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2018: 10.67SnoCo Fall 2018: 11.94Puget Sound NxNxN 2018: 10.28SnoCo Feet Fest 2019: 9.44Washington Championship 2020: 9.30SnoCo Goes Back to Square-1 2021: 7.56Welcome Back Portland 2022: 7.59Frozen Cubes İstanbul 2022: 7.18Vienna Fasching 2023: 8.84Bangkok Cube Day Rainy 2023: 7.44Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 6.61Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 7.75Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 8.74Dawgs at Denny UW 2026: 8.096.6113.2011 Aug 20179 May 2026

Best single per competition, 3×3. 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-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.61 away.
  • A sub-50 5×5 single — 733 people have one; it is 8.76 away.

Targets move as he improves.