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Lucas Choi

3×3 · top 1.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2022 · 2022CHOI21

Lucas Choi has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.00, set at Benicia Open 2025, puts him in the top 1.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 812th in the United States. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 26 competitions since December 2022, he has put 605 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 58% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.22 in December 2022 to 7.00, a 54% improvement. Lucas has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.3% of 284,439 all-time
7.00
signature single · Benicia Open 2025
605
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 58% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.008.27
top 1.3%812 / 59,724
4×434.1046.82
top 6.0%922 / 19,072
2×22.193.80
top 6.1%2,437 / 40,951
Clock5.707.18
top 6.3%488 / 8,927
3×3 one-handed20.6724.35
top 22.3%2,864 / 15,683
Pyraminx6.9311.37
top 27.3%7,491 / 28,708
Skewb9.3414.56
top 50.8%9,097 / 18,907

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

Bay Area Speedcubin' 40 - San Ramon 2022: 15.22Berkeley Winter B 2023: 13.87Bay Area Speedcubin' 41 2023: 10.28Berkeley Spring 2023: 13.42Bay Area Speedcubin' 48 - 6.25 Berkeley 2023: 10.29Bay Area Speedcubin' 50 - Berkeley 2023: 11.28Berkeley Summer 2023: 11.84Bay Area Speedcubin' 51 Live - SSF 2023: 10.27Bay Area Speedcubin' 52 - Belmont 2023: 9.84Bay Area Speedcubin' 53 - Berkeley 2023: 11.07Bay Area Speedcubin' 54 Live - SSF 2023: 9.75Bay Area Speedcubin' 55 - San Ramon 2024: 10.52Berkeley Winter 2024: 11.24Bay Area Speedcubin' 60 - Mountain View 2024: 9.89Bay Area Speedcubin' 63 - Atherton 2024: 9.72Bay Area Speedcubin' 64 LIVE - SSF 2024: 9.43Berkeley Fall 2024: 8.63Cool Down Berkeley 2024: 9.09Bay Area Speedcubin' 67 - San Ramon 2025: 8.02Berkeley Winter 2025: 8.08Belmont Spring 2025: 8.30Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 8.13West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2025: 7.36Benicia Open 2025: 7.00San Ramon Fall 2025: 7.62Belmont Spring 2026: 7.517.0015.224 Dec 20222 May 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.00 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 4.10 away.

Targets move as he improves.