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Luke Cho

3×3 · top 2.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2014 · 2014CHOL01

Luke Cho has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.84, set at Bay Area Speedcubin' 10 2017, puts him in the top 2.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,458th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since February 2014, he has put 278 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 62% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.95 in February 2014 to 7.84, a 59% improvement. Luke has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.5% of 284,439 all-time
7.84
signature single · Bay Area Speedcubin' 10 2017
278
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 62% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.849.03
top 2.5%1,458 / 59,724
2×21.853.15
top 3.9%1,513 / 40,951
Skewb3.486.60
top 7.6%1,180 / 18,907
5×51:05.771:10.59
top 8.9%692 / 9,401
4×439.8843.64
top 12.0%1,772 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed17.0226.66
top 12.6%1,635 / 15,683
6×62:12.362:26.87
top 16.6%591 / 4,196
7×73:53.363:57.01
early days — 3 solves791 / 3,184
3×3 blindfolded1:53.182:52.96
top 31.0%642 / 2,092
Square-121.6124.69
top 31.6%2,041 / 6,743
Megaminx1:54.892:20.40
top 43.1%3,142 / 7,841
Pyraminx10.5114.87
top 56.9%16,675 / 28,708

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' 2 2014: 18.95BASC 4: Día de los Cubos 2014: 13.20BASC 6 2015: 10.93Bay Area Speedcubin' 8 2016: 11.03Berkeley Winter 2017: 10.08Bay Area Speedcubin' 10 2017: 7.84West Coast Cubing Tour - Cupertino 2018: 8.37Dunwoody Day Bash 2019: 7.99Bay Area Speedcubin' 17 2019: 8.15Big Cubes for Dunwoody 2020: 8.227.8418.959 Feb 20148 Feb 2020

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.

  • Paul Mahvi — met in 43 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
  • Ryan Jew — met in 32 rounds, finished ahead 25 times
  • Mitchell Lane — met in 31 rounds, finished ahead twice

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.84 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.85 away.

Targets move as he improves.