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Julian Kim

Skewb · top 3.4% of 73,281 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024KIMJ14

Julian Kim has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 2.63, set at CubingUSA New England Championship 2025, puts him in the top 3.4% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 517th in the United States. Until February 2014, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 37 competitions since March 2024, he has put 1,621 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 77% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 27.41 in March 2024 to 9.94, a 64% improvement. Julian has entered 37 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Skewb
best event — top 3.4% of 73,281 all-time
2.63
signature single · CubingUSA New England Championship 2025
1,621
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 77% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Skewb2.635.17
top 3.4%517 / 18,907
2×21.843.27
top 3.8%1,501 / 40,951
Pyraminx3.105.01
top 4.0%1,060 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed13.0119.71
top 4.4%646 / 15,683
Clock5.016.29
top 4.5%362 / 8,927
Megaminx54.481:03.33
top 7.2%499 / 7,841
3×39.9412.34
top 7.3%4,005 / 59,724
4×440.4944.83
top 12.7%1,867 / 19,072
5×51:11.851:23.52
top 12.9%998 / 9,401
Square-114.2519.43
top 14.7%994 / 6,743
6×62:27.562:42.39
top 24.4%869 / 4,196
7×73:57.934:17.42
top 29.9%835 / 3,184
3×3 Fewest Moves37 moves42.00
top 37.3%810 / 2,040
3×3 blindfolded7:49.20—
early days — 3 solves1,972 / 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

The Battle of Concord 2024: 27.41Cubing at the Y - Stoughton 2024: 27.00Saint John's Showdown 2024: 27.84A Morning in Cambridge 2024: 22.04Lexington Weeknights I 2024: 21.59Mystic Cubikon 2024: 22.74CubingUSA New England Championship 2024: 18.32Lexing-not-a-ton of NxNs 2024: 18.24Quick in Quincy 2024: 18.03Amherst Fall 2024: 18.64Loon Cubikon 2024: 13.33A Tuesday in Ashfield 2024: 16.11The Battle of Lexington 2025: 12.96Cambridge Cube Clash 2025: 13.19Maritimes 2025: 12.47Orono Open 2025: 13.86Corner Brook 2025: 13.26Nebraska Championship 2025: 13.37Salem Cubikon 2025: 10.59Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 10.33CubingUSA New England Championship 2025: 11.93Fitchburg Fall 2025: 10.86Cubing in Westerly RI 2025: 10.63Hawaiʻi Big Island Fall 2025: 10.17New Hampshire Championship 2025: 12.53Elmira Miracle 2025: 12.89The Battle of Concord MA 2026: 9.94St. John's Winter 2026: 12.63Arkansas Championship 2026: 10.40Wakefield MA Spring 2026: 11.68Nebraska Championship 2026: 10.18Cubing in Westerly RI 2026: 10.51Maine Open 2026: 11.889.9427.842 Mar 202419 Jun 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-2 Skewb single — 1,013 people have one; it is 0.63 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.84 away.

Targets move as he improves.