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Kai Kopke

3×3 · top 1.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2016 · 2016KOPK01

Kai Kopke has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.35, set at BC Championship 2024, puts him in the top 1.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 180th in Canada. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 35 competitions since February 2016, he has put 1,151 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 71% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 31.97 in February 2016 to 7.35, a 77% improvement. Kai has entered 35 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.8% of 284,439 all-time
7.35
signature single · BC Championship 2024
1,151
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 71% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×37.359.39
top 1.8%180 / 10,392
2×21.783.11
top 3.5%227 / 7,173
4×436.0540.18
top 7.7%180 / 3,118
Pyraminx4.426.72
top 9.8%359 / 4,858
3×3 one-handed17.8820.62
top 14.7%314 / 2,620
5×51:17.161:22.02
top 17.0%202 / 1,499
Skewb6.5110.34
top 29.8%721 / 2,907
Megaminx1:39.441:52.75
top 34.3%358 / 1,375
7×75:04.325:19.09
top 51.9%218 / 503
6×63:37.173:54.18
top 57.6%322 / 665

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

Vancouver Open Winter 2016: 31.97Vancouver Fall 2016: 16.70Vancouver Open Winter 2017: 15.28Vancouver Open Summer 2017: 8.94CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 9.50Northwest Championships 2017: 10.51SnoCo Cubing Fall 2017: 8.82Whistler Open 2017: 9.20Puget Sound Valentine 2018: 9.22Fraser Valley Spring Open 2018: 9.71St. John's Spring Open 2018: 8.87West Coast Cubing Tour - Cupertino 2018: 9.76CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2018: 9.99Vancouver Select 2018: 9.24SnoCo Fall 2018: 9.74Vancouver Select Winter 2018: 8.72Vancouver Island 2019: 9.24Downtown Vancouver Spring 2019: 8.60Fraser Valley Spring Open 2019: 7.71Vancouver Big Cubes Open 2019: 7.89UBC Open 2020: 8.80BC Cubing Comeback A 2021: 8.37Richmond Open Summer A 2022: 8.42UBC Odd Weekend 2022: 8.87Richmond Favourites 2023: 9.41Cubing on Par A 2023: 7.47Vancouver Pride 2023: 10.59Canadian Championship 2023: 8.87Cubing Around Metrotown 2023: 8.62Canada's Best in the West 2024: 7.55Vancouver Newcomers Afternoon 2024: 8.92BC Championship 2024: 7.35Maple Ridge Favourites 2025: 10.07Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 7.92BC Championship 2026: 8.347.3531.976 Feb 20167 Aug 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.

  • Kenny Zhong — met in 174 rounds, finished ahead 47 times
  • Tristan Lee — met in 160 rounds, finished ahead 90 times
  • Noah Stelting — met in 149 rounds, finished ahead 52 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.35 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.78 away.

Targets move as he improves.