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Griffin Kim

2×2 · top 0.9% of 186,767 all-time · competing since March 2023 · 2023KIMG01

Griffin Kim has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.15, set at River Hill Spring 2025, puts him in the top 0.9% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 381st in the United States. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 54 competitions since March 2023, he has put 2,144 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 85% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.77 in March 2023 to 8.06, a 45% improvement. Griffin has entered 54 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.9% of 186,767 all-time
1.15
signature single · River Hill Spring 2025
2,144
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 85% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×21.152.19
top 0.9%381 / 40,951
Clock4.014.63
top 2.3%198 / 8,927
3×38.0610.00
top 2.9%1,654 / 59,724
Skewb2.684.21
top 3.5%552 / 18,907
Square-110.1815.21
top 6.4%472 / 6,743
3×3 one-handed14.4318.12
top 6.9%931 / 15,683
Megaminx53.9559.99
top 6.9%484 / 7,841
Pyraminx3.865.70
top 7.0%1,776 / 28,708
4×438.7344.26
top 10.6%1,570 / 19,072
5×51:26.391:36.24
top 24.4%1,900 / 9,401
6×62:35.902:48.72
top 28.6%1,012 / 4,196
7×73:54.604:26.57
top 28.7%804 / 3,184
3×3 blindfolded2:16.58—
top 38.9%820 / 2,092

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

Virginia Beach Spring 2023: 14.77Richmond Spring 2023: 13.56Slow N Steady Spring 2023: 15.08ODU Big Blue Spring 2023: 15.29Cougar Qualifier 2023: 13.46CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 12.76Virginia Beach Fall 2023: 14.61Slow N Steady Fall 2023: 10.15Virginia Championship 2023: 13.27MoCo Cubing Winter 2024: 10.72NoVa Cube Winter 2024: 11.71Cubing in the Lion's Den 2024: 10.97ODU Big Blue Winter 2024: 11.54New-Cumberland County 2024: 10.69River Hill Spring 2024: 10.04New Jersey Championship 2024: 10.60Bethesda Summer Showdown 2024: 10.97Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 9.97Bull City Summer NC 2024: 10.81Gaithersburg Back to School 2024: 10.58CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2024: 9.29Colonial Cube Clash VA 2024: 11.21Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2024: 9.18River Hill Fall 2024: 10.87Baton Rouge Winter A 2025: 11.58Bethesda Winter Wonderland 2025: 9.33Charlotte Winter 2025: 10.31PA-retzel Mania Winter 2025: 10.42Front Royal Spring 2025: 10.75Gobbler Cube Day Spring at VT 2025: 10.00River Hill Spring 2025: 9.79UMBC Spring 2025: 9.84Colonial Cube Clash VA Summer 2025: 8.15Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 9.35Virginia Championship 2025: 9.52CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 8.06Fredericksburg Summer PM 2025: 8.99ODU Big Blue Open 2025: 10.08Virginia Beach Fall 2025: 9.63UMBC Fall 2025: 8.47Wide Moves & Waterslides CT 2026: 8.49Fredericksburg Winter PM 2026: 10.08UMBC Winter 2026: 9.64Gobbler Cube Day Winter at VT 2026: 9.57Williamsburg Open Spring 2026: 9.82Virginia Beach Spring 2026: 11.21RVA Spring 2026: 9.69Colonial Cube Clash VA 2026: 11.01Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 9.22Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026: 10.228.0615.2911 Mar 202314 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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.15 away.
  • A sub-4 Clock single — 741 people have one; it is 0.01 away.

Targets move as he improves.