People · Republic of Korea
Chong Min (민총)
3×3 · top 0.91% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2019 · 2019MINC02
Chong Min (민총) has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.56, set at Cool Down Berkeley 2025, puts him in the top 0.91% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 66th in Republic of Korea. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since August 2019, he has put 433 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 83% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.18 in August 2019 to 6.56, a 66% improvement. Chong has entered 19 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 | Republic of Korea | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 6.56 | 8.81 | top 0.91% | 66 / 4,352 | |
| Skewb | 2.02 | 4.26 | top 1.4% | 20 / 854 | |
| 2×2 | 3.30 | 3.87 | top 17.8% | 541 / 2,319 | |
| 4×4 | 45.33 | 51.03 | top 18.7% | 340 / 1,308 | |
| Pyraminx | 7.30 | 7.91 | top 30.3% | 453 / 1,271 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 27.51 | 35.25 | top 40.6% | 517 / 966 | |
| 5×5 | 1:56.45 | 2:15.64 | top 47.0% | 389 / 716 | |
| Megaminx | 2:14.03 | 2:49.20 | top 53.2% | 330 / 524 | |
| Clock | 17.10 | 20.98 | top 55.8% | 369 / 536 | |
| Square-1 | 34.12 | 46.19 | top 57.0% | 239 / 371 | |
| 6×6 | 4:47.29 | 4:51.40 | early days — 3 solves | 277 / 329 |
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
- 15 Apr 2023Three personal bests in one day at Daegu Hot Spring 2023.
- 20 Nov 2022First sub-10 3×3: 9.90 at KAIST Fall 2022.
- 20 Nov 2022Three personal bests in one day at KAIST Fall 2022.
- 12 Aug 2022Four personal bests in one day at Korean Championship 2022.
- 24 Jun 2022Five personal bests in one day at Oslo Open 2022.
- 18 Jan 2020First sub-15 3×3: 14.72 at UCSD Winter 2020.
Competitions
- Seoul Summer 2026 · 19 Jul 2026
- Belmont Spring 2026 · 2 May 2026
- Cool Down Berkeley 2025 · 2 Nov 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Anyang Haseyo 2025 · 8 Feb 2025
- Brown Fall Seongnam 2024 · 21 Sep 2024
- Korean Championship 2024 · 15 Aug 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Korea Qualifier - Daegu B 2024 · 22 Jun 2024
- Anyang Haseyo 2024 · 9 Mar 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Korean Championship 2023 · 15 Dec 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Hamchang Open 2023 · 18 Nov 2023
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023 · 12 Aug 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Silver City Side Events 2023 · 8 Jul 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Daegu Hot Spring 2023 · 15 Apr 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- KAIST Fall 2022 · 20 Nov 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Korean Championship 2022 · 12 Aug 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- Oslo Open 2022 · 24 Jun 2022 — 5 personal bests set
- UCSD Winter 2020 · 18 Jan 2020 — 2 personal bests set
- Mudd Fall 2019 · 5 Oct 2019
- Nisei Week 2019 · 17 Aug 2019
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.
- DongSoo Park (박동수) — met in 59 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
- Minseo Gu (구민서) — met in 58 rounds, finished ahead 13 times
- MinGwan Yeo (여민관) — met in 53 rounds, finished ahead 25 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.56 away.
- A sub-2 Skewb single — 1,013 people have one; it is 0.02 away.
Targets move as he improves.