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Lucas Choi

3×3 · top 1.3% of 288,433 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 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 837th in the United States. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 27 competitions since December 2022, he has put 637 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 53% of the 36,406 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 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.3% of 288,433 all-time
7.00
signature single · Benicia Open 2025
637
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.008.27
top 1.3%837 / 60,666
4×434.1046.26
top 6.0%940 / 19,354
2×22.193.54
top 6.2%2,490 / 41,674
Clock5.707.18
top 6.2%499 / 9,172
3×3 one-handed20.6724.35
top 22.4%2,905 / 15,900
Pyraminx6.9311.37
top 27.3%7,601 / 29,168
Skewb9.3414.56
top 50.9%9,246 / 19,164

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: 7.51Benicia Open II 2026: 7.447.0015.224 Dec 202212 Sep 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 — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.00 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,465 people have one; it is 4.10 away.

Targets move as he improves.