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Đặng Khoa Nguyên

3×3 · top 5.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2024 · 2024NGUY07

Đặng Khoa Nguyên has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.10, set at Cube Against Cancer Hanoi 2026, puts him in the top 5.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 318th in Vietnam. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since January 2024, he has put 76 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 20% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. His 2×2 best has come down from 3.86 in July 2024 to 2.85, a 26% improvement. He has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.1% of 284,439 all-time
9.10
signature single · Cube Against Cancer Hanoi 2026
76
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingVietnam
3×39.1013.16
top 5.1%318 / 2,913
2×22.854.45
top 12.6%249 / 1,714
3×3 one-handed26.6829.13
top 38.5%543 / 943
4×41:13.881:25.32
top 50.6%735 / 1,065
Pyraminx10.0515.97
top 53.4%491 / 750
Square-152.16
early days — 2 solves143 / 161

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

Vietnam Championship 2024: 3.86MYHM HaNxNoi 2026: 4.06Cube Against Cancer Hanoi 2026: 2.852.854.0619 Jul 202414 Apr 2026

Best single per competition, 2×2. 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.10 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.85 away.

Targets move as he improves.