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Andy Gong

3×3 · top 0.27% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2016 · 2016GONG02

Andy Gong has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.56, set at West Melbourne Open 2026, puts him in the top 0.27% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 36th in Australia. Until March 2013, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 57 competitions since April 2016, he has put 3,712 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 64% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.28 in April 2016 to 5.56, a 55% improvement. Andy has entered 57 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.27% of 284,439 all-time
5.56
signature single · West Melbourne Open 2026
3,712
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 64% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
3×35.567.13
top 0.27%36 / 11,709
5×542.8050.44
top 0.4%4 / 1,356
4×423.4826.70
top 0.4%8 / 3,051
3×3 one-handed8.7413.20
top 0.41%15 / 2,659
2×21.031.51
top 0.62%63 / 8,567
Pyraminx1.743.39
top 0.73%41 / 5,993
6×61:25.381:34.03
top 1.2%7 / 641
Square-16.8610.25
top 1.6%17 / 899
Skewb2.284.29
top 2.2%74 / 3,534
7×72:29.852:36.28
top 3.7%17 / 523
Megaminx47.8155.54
top 4.2%57 / 1,277
3×3 Fewest Moves26 moves30.00
top 6.2%31 / 468
Clock9.1812.24
top 20.9%238 / 1,095
3×3 blindfolded1:58.91—
top 33.1%147 / 394
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 16:24—
early days — 1 solve124 / 180

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

Melbourne Autumn 2016: 12.28Connor's Cube Day 2016: 11.21Australian Nationals 2016: 10.53POPS Open 2016: 10.16Sydney Championship 2016: 10.53Cubing Classic 2017: 10.14Sydney Winter 2017: 9.62Australian Nationals 2017: 8.85Adelaide Summer 2018: 8.59Cube for Cambodia 2018: 7.64Melbourne Winter 2018: 6.36Horsham Winter 2018: 9.33Australian Nationals 2018: 7.37St Kevin's College Spring 2018: 9.69Melbourne Cube Days 2018: 7.54Melbourne Summer 2019: 7.72Brilliant Ballarat 2019: 7.71Solving in Sale 2019: 8.32Koalafication Melbourne 2019: 8.12WCA World Championship 2019: 8.23Puzzling Pakenham 2019: 7.42Melbourne Cube Days 2019: 7.97Surf Coast Cubing 2019: 6.76Melbourne Summer 2020: 7.28Bendigo Cube Blitz 2020: 7.20Melbourne Summer 2021: 6.40Solving in Sale 2021: 5.83December Series: Kensington 2021: 6.56Melbourne Summer 2022: 7.87Melbourne Mini Saturday 2022: 7.22Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2022: 6.27Melbourne Summer 2023: 5.87Kensington Summer Saturday 2023: 7.42Victorian Open 2023: 7.22Melbourne Summer 2024: 7.52Altona Algorithms 2024: 6.20Solving In Sale 2024: 5.85Kensington May Saturday 2024: 6.96Melbourne Cube Days 2024: 5.98Melbourne Summer 2025: 6.31Spark Melbourne February 2025: 6.92Solving in Sale 2025: 6.56VIC State Championship 2025: 6.59Puzzling Pakenham Sunday 2025: 6.56The Big Cube Melbourne 2025: 5.95Melbourne Summer 2026: 6.04North-East Melbourne March Saturday 2026: 6.27West Melbourne Open 2026: 5.56Solving in Sale 2026: 6.46Spark Melbourne Autumn Sunday 2026: 6.44Australian Nationals 2026: 6.37Geelong Winter 2026: 6.605.5612.2830 Apr 201629 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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.56 away.
  • A sub-40 5×5 single — 68 people have one; it is 2.80 away.

Targets move as he improves.