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Noah Kim

3×3 one-handed · top 0.088% of 73,695 all-time · competing since October 2018 · 2018KIMN04

Noah Kim has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 7.22, set at Cubing in the Ocean County 2025, puts him in the top 0.088% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 11th in the United States. Until May 2015, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 38 competitions since October 2018, he has put 822 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.12 in October 2018 to 5.18, a 63% improvement. Noah has entered 38 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.088% of 73,695 all-time
7.22
signature single · Cubing in the Ocean County 2025
822
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 one-handed7.229.30
top 0.088%11 / 15,683
3×35.186.79
top 0.16%107 / 59,724
2×22.133.26
top 5.7%2,260 / 40,951
4×446.2252.16
top 19.8%3,012 / 19,072
Pyraminx6.527.60
top 24.0%6,527 / 28,708
3×3 blindfolded5:55.85—
early days — 2 solves1,784 / 2,092

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

Fall Foliage Cubing 2018: 14.12Liberty Science Center Open 2018: 12.50Hudson Valley Winter 2019: 9.09Lower Moreland Winter 2019: 9.23Ridge Cubing 2019: 8.85Hudson Valley Summer 2019: 7.66Ridge Cubing Fall 2019: 7.70No Place For DNF Fall 2019: 8.85CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022: 7.00Seoul Summer 2022: 6.05St. Joseph's Prep 2022: 7.49Westport Summer 2022: 7.00Princeton Fall 2022: 6.82Empire State Fall 2022: 6.90New York New Year 2023: 6.01Mum's the Word 2023: 6.07Empire State Winter Warmup 2023: 6.51Niskayuna Nimble Fingers 2023: 6.51NJIT Spring 2023: 6.71South Jersey Speedsolving 2023: 6.70GCU Spring 2023: 6.01CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023: 6.50Jay House of Cubes 2023: 6.60Chemung Cubing 2023: 6.78Newark's On Track 2023: 6.29Brookline Favorites 2023: 6.58Empire State Fall Favorites 2023: 6.53Parsippany Mini AM 2024: 5.86Cubes on the Bayside Summer 2024: 6.41Cubing in the Ocean County 2024: 5.18Hudson Valley Summer 2024: 5.38New New York New Year 2024: 5.54Cubing in the Ocean County 2025: 5.46New Providence Spring AM 2026: 5.38Mid-Atlantic Warm-Up 2026: 5.345.1814.1220 Oct 20189 Aug 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.

  • Evan Liu — met in 86 rounds, finished ahead 77 times
  • Shaun Mack — met in 69 rounds, finished ahead 22 times
  • Livia Kleiner — met in 56 rounds, finished ahead 36 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 one-handed single — 4 people have one; it is 1.22 away.
  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.18 away.

Targets move as he improves.