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Park Ji Won (박지원)

Square-1 · top 0.044% of 25,272 all-time · competing since July 2017 · 2017WONP01

Park Ji Won (박지원) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the Square-1: a personal-best single of 3.94, set at Korean Championship 2025, puts him in the top 0.044% of the 25,272 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in Republic of Korea. Until February 2023, no official Square-1 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 41 competitions since July 2017, he has put 1,364 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 61% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.14 in October 2017 to 5.39, a 78% improvement. Park has entered 41 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Square-1
best event — top 0.044% of 25,272 all-time
3.94
signature single · Korean Championship 2025
1,364
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 61% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRepublic of Korea
Square-13.945.86
top 0.044%1 / 371
Megaminx26.8729.59
top 0.057%2 / 524
3×35.397.71
top 0.21%13 / 4,352
4×424.3826.79
top 0.56%14 / 1,308
Pyraminx1.613.35
top 0.56%13 / 1,271
5×547.4351.23
top 1.1%16 / 716
Skewb1.963.09
top 1.3%18 / 854
2×21.432.44
top 1.9%51 / 2,319
7×72:21.572:28.48
top 2.5%11 / 254
6×61:33.961:36.66
top 2.6%15 / 329
Clock4.796.85
top 3.9%21 / 536
3×3 one-handed12.9214.42
top 4.3%53 / 966
3×3 Fewest Moves37 moves38.67
early days — 3 solves74 / 173

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

CWR Fall 2017: 24.14CWR Winter 2018: 21.37Play Cube 2018: 15.84Korean Championship 2018: 18.04Korea Winter 2019: 12.01Seoul Winter 2019: 12.31Play Cube X4 2019: 12.92Korean Championship 2019: 11.30Cubing Korea 2019: 10.78Korean Championship Mini 2021: 8.28Korean Spring 2022: 8.88Seoul Summer 2022: 7.96Daegu Hot Autumn 2022: 8.67KAIST Fall 2022: 8.27Seoul Spring 2023: 8.13Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 7.07Korean Championship 2023: 6.57Korea Qualifier - Seoul C 2024: 8.59Korea Newcomers PM 2025: 6.61Korean Championship 2025: 6.90Seoul Winter 2026: 7.11XMUM Cube Open 2026: 6.86Seoul Spring 2026: 7.98Seoul Summer 2026: 7.12Korea Open 2026: 5.395.3924.1428 Oct 201715 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-3 Square-1 single — 1 people have one; it is 0.94 away.
  • A sub-25 Megaminx single — 8 people have one; it is 1.87 away.

Targets move as he improves.