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Ian Kim

2×2 · top 0.2% of 189,179 all-time · competing since August 2024 · 2024KIMI05

Ian Kim has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.77, set at Seoul Summer 2026, puts him in the top 0.2% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 88th in the United States. Until November 2011, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 25 competitions since August 2024, he has put 743 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 62% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 26.75 in August 2024 to 6.39, a 76% improvement. Ian has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.2% of 189,179 all-time
0.77
signature single · Seoul Summer 2026
743
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 62% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×20.771.32
top 0.2%88 / 41,674
3×36.398.40
top 0.77%509 / 60,666
4×427.9936.24
top 1.8%303 / 19,354
Megaminx50.7458.85
top 5.5%391 / 8,026
Skewb3.574.44
top 8.2%1,287 / 19,164
Pyraminx4.195.52
top 8.7%2,264 / 29,168
5×51:10.071:17.48
top 11.7%921 / 9,537
3×3 one-handed16.9319.30
top 12.5%1,640 / 15,900

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

Brookline Favorites 2024: 26.75Lexing-not-a-ton of NxNs 2024: 20.30Quick in Quincy 2024: 19.74Loon Cubikon 2024: 13.24A Saturday in Ashfield 2024: 12.75The Battle of Lexington 2025: 13.92Fall River Cubikon 2025: 10.63Cambridge Cube Clash 2025: 13.71WPI Spring 2025: 10.10Saint John's Warm Up 2025: 10.44Suwon Summer 2025: 10.43Brookline Favorites III 2025: 9.21Fitchburg Fall 2025: 10.39Phillips Exeter Cube Day 2025: 8.31Loon Cubikon NH 2025: 8.64Ipswich Fall 2025: 8.01The Battle of Concord MA 2026: 9.09Cube Against Cancer Boston 2026: 6.39Wakefield MA Spring 2026: 8.17WPI Spring 2026: 7.23Quabbin Spring 2026: 7.30Seoul Summer 2026: 9.17Brookline Favorites IV 2026: 7.96CubingUSA New England Championship 2026: 7.406.3926.7531 Aug 202416 Oct 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.

  • Derek White — met in 115 rounds, finished ahead 28 times
  • Ethan Zhuang — met in 87 rounds, finished ahead 15 times
  • Justin Lee — met in 75 rounds, finished ahead 38 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.39 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 614 people have one; it is 2.99 away.

Targets move as he improves.