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Chris Choi

3×3 · top 0.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2016 · 2016CHOI01

Chris Choi has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.64, set at Tartan Twist PA 2026, puts him in the top 0.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 206th in the United States. Until March 2013, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 37 competitions since February 2016, he has put 1,600 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 67% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.30 in February 2016 to 5.64, a 45% improvement. Chris has entered 37 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.3% of 284,439 all-time
5.64
signature single · Tartan Twist PA 2026
1,600
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 67% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×35.647.79
top 0.3%206 / 59,724
4×425.3328.55
top 0.79%132 / 19,072
2×21.272.29
top 1.3%521 / 40,951
5×549.3252.64
top 1.6%140 / 9,401
Skewb2.134.94
top 1.7%248 / 18,907
Pyraminx2.454.98
top 2.1%546 / 28,708
6×61:36.451:42.47
top 3.2%118 / 4,196
7×72:30.512:35.57
top 3.9%104 / 3,184
3×3 Fewest Moves24 moves28.00
top 4.0%103 / 2,040
3×3 blindfolded32.31—
top 4.8%95 / 2,092
3×3 one-handed13.3318.58
top 4.9%698 / 15,683
Megaminx50.6959.19
top 5.4%380 / 7,841
Square-110.7615.46
top 7.5%541 / 6,743
Clock6.747.59
top 10.0%778 / 8,927

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

Big Apple Cube Clash 2016: 10.30Big Apple Spring 2016: 10.36New York City Summer 2016: 9.06Hudson Valley Open Fall 2016: 9.91Clifton Winter 2017: 8.08Red Cross Cubing Open 2017: 7.95Big Cube Bash 2017: 8.51Hudson Valley Spring 2017: 9.06CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 9.87Princeton Fall 2017: 6.76Liberty Science Center Open 2017: 8.59New York City Winter 2018: 7.26Binghamton Winter Cube Day 2018: 8.27Hudson Valley Open 2018: 7.76Rutgers Spring 2018: 7.62New York City Spring 2018: 7.24North Plainfield Open 2018: 8.11Kew Forest Open 2018: 6.74Hudson Valley Summer 2019: 8.08SBU Fall 2019: 7.06Princeton Winter 2020: 7.79Babylon Winter 2020: 8.84Empire State Summer A 2021: 7.53Pittsburgh Fall 2021: 7.71Pittsburgh Fall 2022: 7.43ALL1- Pittsburgh 2023: 7.31New York New Year 2024: 7.26Cubes on the Bayside Summer 2024: 7.16Pittsburgh Winter 2025: 6.71Cube Against Cancer Pittsburgh 2026: 7.01Tartan Twist PA 2026: 5.645.6410.3627 Feb 201629 Aug 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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.64 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 0.33 away.

Targets move as he improves.