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Minseo Choi

3×3 · top 5.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2016 · 2016CHOI16

Minseo Choi has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.09, set at Korean CWR Style 2017, puts him in the top 5.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 300th in Republic of Korea. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since August 2016, he has put 173 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 97% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.10 in August 2016 to 9.09, a 59% improvement. Minseo has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.1% of 284,439 all-time
9.09
signature single · Korean CWR Style 2017
173
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 97% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRepublic of Korea
3×39.0911.45
top 5.1%300 / 4,352
2×22.223.58
top 6.4%178 / 2,319
3×3 one-handed17.3522.37
top 13.5%191 / 966
Skewb6.086.78
top 26.3%262 / 854
Square-119.8529.52
top 27.7%129 / 371
4×452.541:05.79
top 27.8%497 / 1,308
Pyraminx7.639.89
top 33.1%499 / 1,271

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

Korean Championship 2016: 22.10Busan Winter 2016: 13.683x3x3 HanMaDang 2017: 14.13KAIST Spring 2017: 11.43Play Cube 2017: 11.86Korean Championship 2017: 10.80CWR Fall 2017: 11.02Korean CWR Style 2017: 9.09CWR Winter 2018: 11.84Play Cube 2018: 11.30Korean Championship 2018: 9.819.0922.1012 Aug 201620 Jul 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.09 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.22 away.

Targets move as he improves.