People · Republic of Korea
JuYeol Kim (김주열)
3×3 · top 8.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2014 · 2014KIMJ08
JuYeol Kim (김주열) has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.46, set at Seoul Summer 2022, puts him in the top 8.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 503rd in Republic of Korea. Until February 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since December 2014, he has put 218 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 89% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.81 in December 2014 to 10.46, a 24% improvement. JuYeol has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Republic of Korea | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 10.46 | 12.51 | top 8.8% | 503 / 4,352 | |
| Skewb | 4.09 | 6.22 | top 11.5% | 119 / 854 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 17.70 | 20.39 | top 14.3% | 204 / 966 | |
| 2×2 | 3.39 | 4.67 | top 18.9% | 569 / 2,319 | |
| 4×4 | 50.67 | 54.27 | top 25.5% | 451 / 1,308 | |
| 5×5 | 1:41.99 | 2:00.21 | top 36.9% | 322 / 716 | |
| Megaminx | 2:36.91 | 2:55.88 | top 64.6% | 373 / 524 | |
| Square-1 | 39.83 | 1:07.12 | top 65.2% | 272 / 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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 27 Dec 2014First competition: KAIST Fall 2014. A 14.60 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Cube Camp in Jeju 2026 · 21 Feb 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Daejeon Spring 2025 · 25 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Hamchang Open 2023 · 18 Nov 2023
- KAIST Fall 2022 · 20 Nov 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Cubing SimCheong Open 2022 · 29 Oct 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Seoul Summer 2022 · 23 Jul 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Korean Championship Mini 2021 · 18 Dec 2021
- Cubing Korea 2019 · 28 Dec 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Cutory Blossom 2019 · 6 Apr 2019
- Seoul Winter 2019 · 23 Feb 2019
- Korea Winter 2019 · 19 Jan 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Busan Winter 2018 · 16 Dec 2018
- CWR Fall 2018 · 29 Sep 2018 — 1 personal best set
- Korean Championship 2018 · 20 Jul 2018 — 1 personal best set
- CWR Winter 2018 · 24 Feb 2018 — 1 personal best set
- CWR Fall 2017 · 28 Oct 2017
- Korean Championship 2017 · 28 Jul 2017
- KAIST Spring 2017 · 9 Apr 2017 — 1 personal best set
- Korean Championship 2016 · 12 Aug 2016
- Spring Comes 2015 · 11 Apr 2015 — 1 personal best set
- KAIST Fall 2014 · 27 Dec 2014 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Choi Goho (최고호) — met in 46 rounds, finished ahead 18 times
- DongSoo Park (박동수) — met in 36 rounds, finished ahead once
- Ko Youngjin (고영진) — met in 32 rounds, finished ahead 10 times
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.46 away.
- A sub-4 Skewb single — 7,977 people have one; it is 0.09 away.
Targets move as he improves.