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Austin Grant Nguyen
2×2 · top 9.9% of 186,767 all-time · competing since July 2025 · 2025NGUY26
Austin Grant Nguyen has been competing for a year. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.60, set at West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2026, puts him in the top 9.9% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,907th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since July 2025, he has put 211 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 28.85 in July 2025 to 11.01, a 62% improvement. Austin has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 2.60 | 4.94 | top 9.9% | 3,907 / 40,951 | |
| 3×3 | 11.01 | 15.62 | top 10.5% | 5,687 / 59,724 | |
| 4×4 | 1:12.34 | 1:31.93 | top 49.1% | 8,221 / 19,072 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 32.03 | 41.89 | top 51.2% | 7,076 / 15,683 | |
| Pyraminx | 10.46 | 11.89 | top 56.5% | 16,549 / 28,708 | |
| Skewb | 13.26 | 19.29 | top 71.8% | 13,545 / 18,907 | |
| Megaminx | 3:09.68 | 3:31.22 | top 77.5% | 6,095 / 7,841 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 18 Oct 2025First sub-15 3×3: 11.01 at Poly Cubed at Pomona 2025.
- 24 Aug 2025First sub-20 3×3: 17.58 at UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025.
- 20 Jul 2025First competition: UCLA Summer 2025. A 28.85 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Temecula Valley Summer 2026 · 25 Jul 2026
- West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2026 · 23 May 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2026 · 19 Apr 2026
- UCSD TritoNxN 2026 · 4 Apr 2026
- UCSD March A 2026 · 1 Mar 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Super Duper San Diego 2026 · 9 Jan 2026
- Singapore Sprint November 2025 · 30 Nov 2025
- Poly Cubed at Pomona 2025 · 18 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Mission Viejo Fall 2025 · 12 Oct 2025
- Nub Open Trabuco Hills Fall 2025 · 4 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025 · 24 Aug 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- UCLA Summer 2025 · 20 Jul 2025
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.
- Muhtasim Al-Farabi — met in 38 rounds, never finished ahead
- Liv Coverdale — met in 37 rounds, finished ahead 15 times
- Ellion Ornemark — met in 37 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.60 away.
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.01 away.
Targets move as he improves.