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Jacob Youn

3×3 one-handed · top 7.5% of 73,695 all-time · competing since November 2016 · 2016YOUN09

Jacob Youn has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 14.69, set at PDX Cubing for Causes 2018, puts him in the top 7.5% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,002nd in the United States. Until August 2008, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since November 2016, he has put 85 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 21% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 3 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 25.43 in November 2016 to 12.03, a 53% improvement. Jacob has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 7.5% of 73,695 all-time
14.69
signature single · PDX Cubing for Causes 2018
85
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 one-handed14.6918.41
top 7.5%1,002 / 15,683
3×312.0314.36
top 14.0%7,506 / 59,724
Skewb5.7114.65
top 23.5%3,786 / 18,907
2×24.106.93
top 27.8%10,969 / 40,951
Pyraminx8.0314.76
top 36.4%10,317 / 28,708

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

PDX Cubing for Dougy 2016: 25.43Keep Portland Weird 2017: 18.51Rose City 2017: 16.37Northwest Championships 2017: 12.33PDX Cubing for Causes 2018: 12.0312.0325.4319 Nov 201613 Jan 2018

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-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 2.69 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.03 away.

Targets move as he improves.