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Seungmin Hong (홍승민)

Skewb · top 3.7% of 74,164 all-time · competing since May 2017 · 2017HONG09

Seungmin Hong (홍승민) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 2.70, set at Daegu Autumn 2024, puts him in the top 3.7% of the 74,164 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 61st in Canada. Until February 2014, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 35 competitions since May 2017, he has put 613 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 89% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.60 in May 2017 to 8.73, a 31% improvement. Seungmin has entered 35 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Skewb
best event — top 3.7% of 74,164 all-time
2.70
signature single · Daegu Autumn 2024
613
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 89% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
Skewb2.705.55
top 3.7%61 / 2,928
3×38.7310.65
top 4.3%412 / 10,502
2×22.303.25
top 7.1%460 / 7,245
3×3 one-handed14.8918.97
top 8.0%172 / 2,632
Megaminx57.451:06.27
top 8.7%79 / 1,393
4×439.3345.05
top 11.4%281 / 3,180
5×51:15.061:29.60
top 15.5%187 / 1,546
Square-116.3021.57
top 19.4%164 / 973
Pyraminx6.117.64
top 20.8%875 / 4,913
3×3 Fewest Moves33 moves36.67
top 23.5%68 / 284
7×73:49.494:14.22
top 27.0%115 / 519
3×3 blindfolded1:42.242:09.51
top 27.4%93 / 362
6×62:42.022:47.41
top 31.9%163 / 683
Clock23.8033.92
top 74.3%757 / 1,057
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 3 cubes · 18:46—
early days — 1 solve103 / 116

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

National Capital Region 2017: 12.60Berkeley Spring 2023: 10.31Southern Ontario Summer - Waterloo 2023: 11.71Battle of Waterloo 2024: 9.62Hamchang Winter 2024: 10.45Seoul Winter 2024: 10.34Berkeley Winter 2025: 10.99Bay Area Side Events Day 2025: 9.91Berkeley Spring 2025: 9.27EVO Sports Expo Cubing - Santa Clara 2025: 10.03UCLA Spring 2025: 9.74Belmont Spring 2025: 10.01Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 8.99Waterloo Fall 2025: 8.73Berkeley Fall 2026: 9.238.7312.6021 May 201711 Oct 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-2 Skewb single — 1,031 people have one; it is 0.70 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.73 away.

Targets move as he improves.