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Ming Kim Low

2×2 · top 9.4% of 186,767 all-time · competing since January 2011 · 2011LOWM01

Ming Kim Low has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.55, set at Lifestyle Seasons Summer 2015, puts him in the top 9.4% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 709th in Australia. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since January 2011, he has put 468 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 94% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:00.33 in January 2011 to 11.89, an 80% improvement. Ming has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 9.4% of 186,767 all-time
2.55
signature single · Lifestyle Seasons Summer 2015
468
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 94% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
2×22.555.59
top 9.4%709 / 8,567
3×311.8913.74
top 13.5%1,197 / 11,709
3×3 one-handed23.2730.75
top 29.5%670 / 2,659
4×454.381:05.47
top 30.0%786 / 3,051
Pyraminx8.9711.58
top 44.6%2,454 / 5,993
5×51:59.762:10.84
top 49.1%660 / 1,356
Skewb10.1819.74
top 56.0%1,837 / 3,534
3×3 blindfolded3:50.33—
top 65.8%291 / 394
6×64:30.274:43.95
top 74.7%471 / 641
3×3 Fewest Moves50 moves—
early days — 2 solves346 / 468
7×76:57.61—
early days — 1 solve396 / 523

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

Melbourne Summer Open 2011: 1:00.33Kubaroo Open 2011: 50.61Melbourne Winter Open 2011: 44.33Melbourne Winter 2014: 23.16Melbourne Cube Day 2014: 21.58Niddrie 2014: 22.34Lifestyle Seasons Summer 2015: 17.55Melbourne Autumn 2015: 19.96Cube for Cambodia 2015: 15.94Australian Nationals 2015: 15.69Melbourne Cube Days 2015: 15.26Cubing Classic 2016: 11.90Melbourne Autumn 2016: 14.76Cube for Cambodia 2016: 15.36Melbourne Cube Days 2016: 14.51POPS Open 2016: 14.07Melbourne Cube Days 2017: 11.89Hobart Summer 2018: 12.3211.891:00.3329 Jan 201127 Jan 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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.55 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.89 away.

Targets move as he improves.