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Yoochan Hong (홍유찬)

3×3 · top 0.046% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2016 · 2016HONG03

Yoochan Hong (홍유찬) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 4.49, set at Daejeon Spring 2025, puts him in the top 0.046% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2nd in Republic of Korea. Until May 2018, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 54 competitions since April 2016, he has put 2,174 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 91% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.45 in April 2016 to 4.49, a 76% improvement. Yoochan has entered 54 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.046% of 284,439 all-time
4.49
signature single · Daejeon Spring 2025
2,174
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 91% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRepublic of Korea
3×34.496.34
top 0.046%2 / 4,352
3×3 one-handed7.529.04
top 0.12%2 / 966
4×421.5826.19
top 0.15%5 / 1,308
Pyraminx1.242.15
top 0.17%3 / 1,271
Skewb1.442.67
top 0.36%4 / 854
2×20.892.17
top 0.36%7 / 2,319
Megaminx37.7241.60
top 1.1%10 / 524
Clock3.854.80
top 2.1%14 / 536
Square-17.7311.46
top 2.6%13 / 371
5×554.2459.35
top 3.1%37 / 716
6×62:01.392:10.38
top 11.5%58 / 329
3×3 Fewest Moves32 moves34.00
top 20.4%41 / 173
7×73:53.624:16.48
top 28.4%99 / 254
3×3 blindfolded5:13.30—
early days — 2 solves190 / 217

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

Jeonju Spring 2016: 18.45Cube Is Good 2016: 14.99Korean Championship 2016: 10.783x3x3 HanMaDang 2017: 10.21CWR Fall 2017: 10.51Cubedu Korea 2018: 9.59Play Cube 2018: 9.30Korean Championship 2018: 7.99Cutory Autumn Open 2018: 8.11Korea Winter 2019: 7.66Seoul Winter 2019: 8.80Cutory Blossom 2019: 8.50Play Cube X4 2019: 8.49Cubing Operating System Summer 2019: 7.04Korean Championship 2019: 6.99Daegu Autumn Open 2019: 8.30Cubing Korea 2019: 7.05ByeolLae Open 2020: 7.52Korean Spring 2022: 6.62Korean Championship 2022: 6.50KAIST Fall 2022: 7.29Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 6.47Korean Championship 2023: 5.65Seoul Open 2024: 5.85Anyang Haseyo 2024: 6.50Busan Spring 2024: 6.95Ansan Summer 2024: 5.98Hamchang Winter 2024: 5.82Seoul Winter 2024: 7.36Happy Suseong 2025: 5.27Anyang Haseyo 2025: 5.89Korea Newcomers AM 2025: 6.10Beijing Summer 2025: 6.69Daejeon Spring 2025: 4.49Osan Summer 2025: 6.11Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 5.86Korea Open 2025: 5.70We Laugh Pohanghang 2025: 5.55Uhseo Osong 2025: 6.93Korean Championship 2025: 6.01Seoul Winter 2026: 5.61Otsu Biwako Winter 2026: 6.00Ansan Favorites 2026: 5.95Seoul Spring 2026: 5.16Anyang Haseyo 2026: 5.50Hamoye Jinju 2026: 6.12Seoul Summer 2026: 5.67Shimonoseki Summer 2026: 6.06Korea Open 2026: 5.634.4918.452 Apr 201615 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-4 3×3 single — 38 people have one; it is 0.49 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 one-handed single — 4 people have one; it is 1.52 away.

Targets move as he improves.