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Shiun Choi

3×3 · top 1.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2016 · 2016CHOI08

Shiun Choi has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.40, set at UCLA Spring 2025, puts him in the top 1.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,103rd in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 26 competitions since March 2016, he has put 740 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 69% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.47 in March 2016 to 7.40, a 67% improvement. Shiun has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.8% of 284,439 all-time
7.40
signature single · UCLA Spring 2025
740
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 69% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.408.90
top 1.8%1,103 / 59,724
4×429.4933.29
top 2.5%414 / 19,072
2×22.023.36
top 4.9%1,961 / 40,951
5×51:02.351:16.72
top 6.8%548 / 9,401
Megaminx55.5359.69
top 7.7%531 / 7,841
3×3 one-handed18.3224.30
top 15.9%2,051 / 15,683
Pyraminx5.6410.68
top 17.4%4,601 / 28,708
Clock11.9616.63
top 34.7%2,748 / 8,927
6×62:54.633:08.59
top 38.3%1,388 / 4,196
Square-141.7354.41
top 67.5%4,440 / 6,743
7×76:11.89—
early days — 1 solve2,163 / 3,184

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

Newport Spring 2016: 22.47TFTI San Diego 2016: 24.06Qualifornia 2017: 16.68UCSD Winter 2023: 8.98USC Cubing 2024: 9.31Los Angeles Newcomers 2024: 7.72Westview Cubing Favorites 2024: 10.25CubingUSA Western Championship 2024: 9.06Super Duper San Diego 2024: 8.61Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2025: 7.72UCLA Spring 2025: 7.40Westview Cubing Favorites 2025: 8.99West Coast Cubing Tour: Los Angeles 2025: 7.66UCLA Summer 2025: 9.94UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025: 8.46Nub Open Trabuco Hills Fall 2025: 8.68Mission Viejo Fall 2025: 8.74Huntington Park Winter 2025: 7.79Super Duper San Diego 2026: 8.16UCLA Spring 2026: 8.45UCSD March A 2026: 7.88Temecula Valley Spring 2026: 7.90Poly Cubed at Pomona 2026: 7.71Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2026: 8.24West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2026: 7.737.4024.0626 Mar 201623 May 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.40 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 4.49 away.

Targets move as he improves.