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JaeSeong Choe (최재성)

3×3 blindfolded · top 8.3% of 12,178 all-time · competing since January 2014 · 2014CHOE01

JaeSeong Choe (최재성) has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3 blindfolded: a personal-best single of 45.18, set at Korean Championship 2017, puts him in the top 8.3% of the 12,178 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 26th in Republic of Korea. Until August 2009, no official 3×3 blindfolded solve in the world had been that fast. Across 29 competitions since January 2014, he has put 448 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 90% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.11 in January 2014 to 11.67, a 28% improvement. JaeSeong has entered 29 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 blindfolded
best event — top 8.3% of 12,178 all-time
45.18
signature single · Korean Championship 2017
448
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 90% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRepublic of Korea
3×3 blindfolded45.181:05.73
top 8.3%26 / 217
3×311.6714.42
top 12.7%718 / 4,352
2×24.376.37
top 31.3%934 / 2,319
3×3 one-handed25.3034.15
top 35.0%444 / 966
Pyraminx8.4612.40
top 40.2%597 / 1,271
3×3 Multi-Blind7 of 10 cubes · 54:33—
early days — 1 solve40 / 74
3×3 Fewest Moves41 moves—
early days — 3 solves100 / 173
4×41:15.981:27.76
top 52.5%869 / 1,308
Skewb11.3022.72
top 62.4%568 / 854
5×5 blindfolded33:38.00—
early days — 1 solve32 / 33
Megaminx4:05.956:02.48
top 90.9%490 / 524
5×54:21.624:53.43
top 94.1%681 / 716
Square-15:06.92—
early days — 1 solve374 / 371

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

Korea New Year 2014: 16.11Thanks Cubing Day 2014: 13.16KAIST Fall 2014: 13.87Winter Cube Anniversary 2015: 14.74Spring Comes 2015: 13.08Good Cube Show Korea 2015: 14.01Korean KAIST Style 2015: 13.24Korea Winter 2015: 13.56Valentine in Daegu 2016: 13.76Jeonju Spring 2016: 11.81Korean Championship 2016: 12.483x3x3 HanMaDang 2017: 14.54KAIST Spring 2017: 12.66Play Cube 2017: 13.03Korean Championship 2017: 14.38CWR Fall 2017: 13.31Cubedu Korea 2018: 11.67CWR Winter 2018: 14.31Play Cube 2018: 13.00Korean Championship 2018: 15.24CWR Fall 2018: 12.57Busan Winter 2018: 13.77Korean Championship Mini 2021: 16.19Seoul Spring 2023: 14.51Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 13.67Suncheon Fall 2023: 15.3611.6716.1912 Jan 201429 Oct 2023

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-40 3×3 blindfolded single — 826 people have one; it is 5.18 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.67 away.

Targets move as he improves.