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Alex Pham

3×3 · top 1.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2022 · 2022PHAM08

Alex Pham has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.78, set at CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2024, puts him in the top 1.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 53rd in Vietnam. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 41 competitions since August 2022, he has put 1,593 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 62% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.33 in August 2022 to 6.78, a 58% improvement. Alex has entered 41 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.1% of 284,439 all-time
6.78
signature single · CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2024
1,593
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 62% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingVietnam
3×36.789.05
top 1.1%53 / 2,913
2×21.583.41
top 2.5%44 / 1,714
3×3 one-handed12.4816.84
top 3.6%55 / 943
Pyraminx3.265.33
top 4.5%48 / 750
4×434.1739.32
top 6.0%103 / 1,065
Skewb5.029.62
top 18.3%117 / 533
5×51:19.161:27.39
top 18.4%130 / 539
Megaminx1:15.441:22.18
top 19.0%60 / 249
Clock9.0610.75
top 20.3%58 / 201
6×62:45.553:05.23
top 33.7%83 / 179
7×75:19.826:05.52
top 56.8%106 / 137

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

Pittsburgh Summer B 2022: 16.33Happy Valley Fall 2022: 11.82New York New Year 2023: 10.77Pretzel Mania 2023: 8.87Virginia Beach Spring 2023: 9.90Virginia Re-Open Spring 2023: 11.45Richmond Spring 2023: 9.57ODU Big Blue Spring 2023: 9.15TJHSST Spring 2023: 9.06CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023: 10.14Pretzel Mania Summer 2023: 10.17Virginia Beach Fall 2023: 8.28Slow N Steady Fall 2023: 8.95River Hill Fall 2023: 9.47North Carolina Championship 2023: 8.74Virginia Championship 2023: 9.22Virginia Still-Open Winter 2024: 7.90ODU Big Blue Winter 2024: 9.39UMBC Winter 2024: 9.00Slow N Steady Spring 2024: 9.47River Hill Spring 2024: 9.46Cubing at Carson 2024: 9.66Vietnam Championship 2024: 9.14Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 7.92CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2024: 6.78Colonial Cube Clash VA 2024: 9.51Bethesda Winter Wonderland 2025: 7.37Cubing with the Cougars WV 2025: 8.13PA-retzel Mania Winter 2025: 8.23Virginia Always Open Spring 2025: 8.60River Hill Spring 2025: 9.51North Carolina Championship 2025: 8.35TJHSST Spring 2025: 9.16Colonial Cube Clash VA Summer 2025: 9.05Virginia Championship 2025: 8.17CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 8.82ODU Big Blue Open 2025: 7.90Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2025: 8.97Virginia Beach Fall 2025: 8.19River Hill Fall 2025: 9.366.7816.3314 Aug 20226 Dec 2025

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 0.78 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.58 away.

Targets move as he improves.