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Seungmin Lee

3×3 · top 1.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2017 · 2017LEES10

Seungmin Lee has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.23, set at Moncton Spring 2024, puts him in the top 1.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 163rd in Canada. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since October 2017, he has put 460 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.66 in October 2017 to 7.23, a 47% improvement. Seungmin has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.6% of 284,439 all-time
7.23
signature single · Moncton Spring 2024
460
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×37.238.61
top 1.6%163 / 10,392
2×21.712.70
top 3.1%204 / 7,173
3×3 one-handed14.8119.11
top 7.7%164 / 2,620
4×442.8850.88
top 15.6%397 / 3,118
Pyraminx7.489.09
top 31.8%1,411 / 4,858
Skewb9.2412.70
top 50.1%1,368 / 2,907

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

Atlantic Open Fall 2017: 13.66Halifax Open 2018: 8.17Halifax Spring 2018: 10.82Saint John 2018: 10.96Halifax Open 2019: 9.93Moncton Open 2019: 8.09Dalhousie Leap Year 2020: 8.77Halifax Favourites 2023: 8.29Halifax Fall 2023: 7.47Moncton Spring 2024: 7.23Moncton 2026: 7.947.2313.6621 Oct 20174 Apr 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.

  • Liam Orovec — met in 78 rounds, finished ahead 34 times
  • Graeme Watt — met in 55 rounds, finished ahead 20 times
  • Saul Hafting — met in 43 rounds, finished ahead 33 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.23 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.71 away.

Targets move as he improves.