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SangWook Park (박상욱)

3×3 · top 1.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2015 · 2015PARK18

SangWook Park (박상욱) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.04, set at Seoul Spring 2023, puts him in the top 1.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 87th in Republic of Korea. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since October 2015, he has put 383 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 90% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.03 in October 2015 to 7.04, a 46% improvement. SangWook has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.4% of 284,439 all-time
7.04
signature single · Seoul Spring 2023
383
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 90% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRepublic of Korea
3×37.049.63
top 1.4%87 / 4,352
4×432.7138.57
top 4.7%98 / 1,308
3×3 one-handed13.9619.02
top 6.0%83 / 966
5×51:06.251:09.96
top 9.2%97 / 716
6×62:06.942:14.44
top 14.1%69 / 329
7×73:12.743:17.30
top 14.1%54 / 254
Megaminx1:33.421:45.38
top 30.3%200 / 524
2×24.435.93
top 32.0%958 / 2,319

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 KAIST Style 2015: 13.03Korea Winter 2015: 10.94Cube Is Good 2016: 8.76Korean Championship 2016: 9.573x3x3 HanMaDang 2017: 9.61Korean Spring Picnic 2017: 9.75Play Cube 2017: 9.21Korean Championship 2017: 8.55Cubedu Korea 2018: 9.74Cutory Autumn Open 2018: 9.89Korean Championship Mini 2021: 8.60Seoul Summer 2022: 9.56Korean Championship 2022: 8.15Cubing SimCheong Open 2022: 8.12KAIST Fall 2022: 10.38Singapore Championship 2023: 8.14Seoul Spring 2023: 7.04Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 8.97Korean Championship 2024: 7.487.0413.039 Oct 201515 Aug 2024

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.04 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 2.71 away.

Targets move as he improves.