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Adam Tran

3×3 · top 1.7% of 288,433 all-time · competing since April 2017 · 2017TRAN08

Adam Tran has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.30, set at Space City Summer 2023, puts him in the top 1.7% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,050th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since April 2017, he has put 1,126 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 67% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.86 in April 2017 to 7.30, a 33% improvement. Adam has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.7% of 288,433 all-time
7.30
signature single · Space City Summer 2023
1,126
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 67% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.308.62
top 1.7%1,050 / 60,666
4×429.9535.65
top 2.9%467 / 19,354
2×22.072.95
top 5.3%2,124 / 41,674
Square-19.7813.31
top 5.7%425 / 6,846
3×3 one-handed14.7716.94
top 7.7%1,038 / 15,900
Pyraminx4.366.23
top 9.5%2,499 / 29,168
5×51:11.051:18.95
top 12.4%965 / 9,537
Skewb4.647.56
top 15.6%2,472 / 19,164
Clock8.479.54
top 17.3%1,348 / 9,172
Megaminx1:17.161:27.19
top 20.0%1,396 / 8,026
6×62:22.952:32.21
top 22.1%791 / 4,262
7×73:45.954:05.50
top 25.6%730 / 3,236
3×3 blindfolded2:28.903:38.57
top 42.9%926 / 2,128

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

Don't Mess With Texas 2017: 10.86Southern Championships 2017: 10.40Yeehaw 2017: 11.70Houston Winter 2020: 10.00CubingUSA Southern Championship 2022: 8.88Texas BarbeCubing 2022: 8.32Cubing For Water Winter 2023: 7.81DFW Cubing Winter 2023: 7.98Cedar Park Winter 2023: 7.89Cube Against Cancer Texas 2023: 9.03Space City Summer 2023: 7.30Keep Austin Weird 2023: 8.06Austin NxN 2024: 8.32Texas Championship 2024: 7.47Cube a Ton in Arlington 2024: 7.99Space City Winter TX 2025: 8.29Austin Cubing Limits Winter 2025: 7.74DFW Cubing Winter 2025: 8.52The Heart of Texas 2025: 8.92Cubing Simple in Temple 2025: 8.39Georgetown Favorite Event Day 2026: 8.357.3011.7029 Apr 201731 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 — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.30 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 614 people have one; it is 4.95 away.

Targets move as he improves.