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Lee Tae-Sub (이태섭)

3×3 · top 7.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2010 · 2010TAES01

Lee Tae-Sub (이태섭) has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.08, set at Korean Championship 2018, puts him in the top 7.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 437th in Republic of Korea. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since January 2010, he has put 353 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 83% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.27 in January 2010 to 10.08, a 24% improvement. Lee has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.7% of 284,439 all-time
10.08
signature single · Korean Championship 2018
353
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 83% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRepublic of Korea
3×310.0812.25
top 7.7%437 / 4,352
2×23.304.47
top 17.8%541 / 2,319
4×445.5853.08
top 19.0%346 / 1,308
5×51:24.151:29.98
top 22.5%206 / 716
3×3 one-handed20.7925.66
top 22.7%311 / 966
Pyraminx6.4410.31
top 23.3%365 / 1,271
Square-118.2425.36
top 23.9%105 / 371
Megaminx1:39.191:43.40
top 34.2%221 / 524
6×63:14.053:34.66
top 47.7%192 / 329
7×74:53.235:10.82
top 48.7%154 / 254
Skewb18.0928.09
top 86.3%766 / 854

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 Cube Championship 2010: 13.27Korean Championship 2011: 10.13Cubing Korea New Years 2012: 12.30Cubing Korea January 2012: 11.77Korean Style 2013: 11.61Korean Winter 2013: 11.03Korea New Year 2014: 11.19Thanks Cubing Day 2014: 10.86CWR Fall 2017: 11.24Korean Championship 2018: 10.0810.0813.2723 Jan 201020 Jul 2018

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.08 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.30 away.

Targets move as he improves.