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Kim Min (김민)

5×5 · top 2.4% of 40,792 all-time · competing since October 2015 · 2015MINK03

Kim Min (김민) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 5×5: a personal-best single of 52.09, set at Daegu Cold Winter 2024, puts him in the top 2.4% of the 40,792 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 30th in Republic of Korea. Until September 2012, no official 5×5 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 26 competitions since October 2015, he has put 772 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 97% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.37 in October 2015 to 7.91, a 54% improvement. Kim has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

5×5
best event — top 2.4% of 40,792 all-time
52.09
signature single · Daegu Cold Winter 2024
772
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 97% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRepublic of Korea
5×552.0954.66
top 2.4%30 / 716
3×37.919.37
top 2.6%172 / 4,352
4×430.5234.48
top 3.1%67 / 1,308
Megaminx45.5652.43
top 3.3%24 / 524
2×21.843.37
top 3.8%104 / 2,319
Pyraminx3.434.41
top 5.2%88 / 1,271
6×61:46.861:48.45
top 6.1%30 / 329
7×72:43.032:53.59
top 6.2%27 / 254
3×3 one-handed14.2916.72
top 6.7%91 / 966
3×3 blindfolded42.50—
top 7.5%23 / 217
Square-112.3018.62
top 10.5%45 / 371
Skewb4.325.62
top 13.1%138 / 854
Clock7.859.21
top 14.5%100 / 536
3×3 Fewest Moves30 moves50.67
top 14.8%29 / 173
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 10:35—
early days — 1 solve52 / 74

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

Korean KAIST Style 2015: 17.37Valentine in Daegu 2016: 14.87Korean Championship 2016: 11.78Busan Winter 2016: 11.313x3x3 HanMaDang 2017: 11.24Korean Championship 2017: 9.73Korean CWR Style 2017: 10.27CWR Winter 2018: 10.49Play Cube 2018: 9.34Cutory Autumn Open 2018: 9.53Busan Winter 2018: 7.91Korea Winter 2019: 10.96Seoul Winter 2019: 9.18Cutory Blossom 2019: 8.35Korean Championship 2019: 9.37Daegu Autumn Open 2019: 9.78Cubing Korea 2019: 8.58ByeolLae Open 2020: 9.93Korean Championship Mini 2021: 10.38Busan Spring 2024: 9.02Happy Suseong 2025: 8.677.9117.379 Oct 201518 Jan 2025

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-50 5×5 single — 713 people have one; it is 2.09 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.91 away.

Targets move as he improves.