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Minhyun Kim (김민현)

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 2.2% of 12,294 all-time · competing since January 2007 · 2007MINH01

Minhyun Kim (김민현) has been competing for 20 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 22 moves, set at Vardagscubing I - Uppsala 2022, puts him in the top 2.2% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 6th in Republic of Korea. Across 38 competitions since January 2007, he has put 1,136 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 91% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.19 in January 2007 to 9.61, a 27% improvement. Minhyun has entered 38 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 2.2% of 12,294 all-time
22 moves
signature single · Vardagscubing I - Uppsala 2022
1,136
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 91% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRepublic of Korea
3×3 Fewest Moves22 moves26.67
top 2.2%6 / 173
2×21.973.94
top 4.5%121 / 2,319
4×434.2441.45
top 6.1%135 / 1,308
3×39.6111.15
top 6.4%375 / 4,352
3×3 one-handed14.6820.22
top 7.4%102 / 966
3×3 blindfolded43.4451.98
top 7.8%24 / 217
Megaminx1:04.741:16.28
top 12.5%84 / 524
5×51:12.871:21.25
top 13.7%144 / 716
4×4 blindfolded4:26.355:10.12
top 17.8%16 / 48
Pyraminx6.288.96
top 22.1%344 / 1,271
3×3 Multi-Blind7 of 7 cubes · 29:43—
top 25.8%23 / 74
6×62:33.852:43.51
top 27.6%124 / 329
7×74:08.004:22.60
top 33.7%115 / 254
5×5 blindfolded13:40.00—
top 35.8%14 / 33
Skewb7.3313.80
top 36.2%371 / 854
Square-124.4326.56
top 37.8%174 / 371
Clock16.9222.82
top 55.2%365 / 536

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

KCRC Championship 2007: 13.19Suwon Cube Championship 2008: 12.313x3x3 HanMaDang 2017: 11.13Korean Championship 2017: 9.90Munich Open 2017: 9.61PSKubing 2017: 10.18Berlin Kubus Projekt 2017: 11.03Cubedu Korea 2018: 9.68CWR Winter 2018: 9.71Play Cube 2018: 11.59Korean Championship 2018: 10.03German Nationals 2018: 11.78Korea Winter 2019: 10.83Play Cube X4 2019: 10.37Cube Camp in Wonju 2019: 11.48Korean Championship 2019: 10.43Cubing Korea 2019: 10.97Danish Championship 2021: 10.19German Mini Open B 2021: 11.29German Mini Open B 2022: 10.60Fyris Cubing 2022: 10.76Rubik's WCA European Championship 2022: 10.67Westfries Open 2022: 10.48Daegu Hot Spring 2023: 11.42Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 11.739.6113.197 Jan 200712 Aug 2023

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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.97 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 4.24 away.

Targets move as he improves.