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Dylan Kim
3×3 · top 3.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022KIMD09
Dylan Kim has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.44, set at West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2026, puts him in the top 3.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,047th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since October 2022, he has put 409 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 76% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.25 in October 2022 to 8.44, a 31% improvement. Dylan has entered 22 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 | 8.44 | 11.32 | top 3.6% | 2,047 / 59,724 | |
| 2×2 | 2.25 | 4.34 | top 6.6% | 2,616 / 40,951 | |
| Pyraminx | 6.88 | 9.96 | top 26.9% | 7,368 / 28,708 | |
| 4×4 | 52.47 | 1:09.13 | top 27.8% | 4,295 / 19,072 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 27.29 | 39.19 | top 40.1% | 5,348 / 15,683 | |
| Skewb | 8.25 | 13.50 | top 43.2% | 7,580 / 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
- 8 Jul 2023First sub-10 3×3: 8.83 at Rialto Cubing Summer 2023.
- 8 Jul 2023Three personal bests in one day at Rialto Cubing Summer 2023.
- 7 Oct 2022First competition: WCC Western Championship 2022. A 12.25 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- DFW Cubing Summer 2026 · 29 Aug 2026 — 1 personal best set
- West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2026 · 23 May 2026 — 1 personal best set
- UCLA Spring 2026 · 15 Feb 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Huntington Park Winter 2025 · 6 Dec 2025
- Nub Open Trabuco Hills Fall 2025 · 4 Oct 2025
- UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025 · 24 Aug 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Nub Open Mission Viejo Spring 2025 · 31 May 2025
- Let's Cube Long Beach 2025 · 25 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Nub Open Lake Forest 2024 · 15 Dec 2024
- Temecula Valley Fall 2024 · 26 Oct 2024
- Aliso Niguel Summer 2024 · 8 Sep 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- USC Cubing 2024 · 3 Feb 2024
- Thankful for Cubing RPV 2023 · 18 Nov 2023
- Irvine Fall 2023 · 24 Sep 2023
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023 · 12 Aug 2023
- UCSD Summer 2023 · 5 Aug 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Rialto Cubing Summer 2023 · 8 Jul 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Nanaimo Swing into Spring 2023 · 25 Mar 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Circle City Turbocharged 2023 · 11 Mar 2023
- Winter WestSide Events 2022 · 10 Dec 2022
- Circle City Supercharged 2022 · 19 Nov 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- WCC Western Championship 2022 · 7 Oct 2022
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.
- Shane Grogan — met in 62 rounds, finished ahead once
- August Barnard — met in 57 rounds, finished ahead 11 times
- Zack Rubio — met in 57 rounds, finished ahead 9 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.44 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.25 away.
Targets move as he improves.