People · Vietnam
Bach Nguyen
3×3 · top 1.2% of 288,433 all-time · competing since September 2025 · 2025NGUY39
Bach Nguyen has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.91, set at Puzzling Pakenham Saturday 2025, puts him in the top 1.2% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 61st in Vietnam. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since September 2025, he has put 110 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 63% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Bach has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Vietnam | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 6.91 | 8.35 | top 1.2% | 61 / 2,920 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 12.30 | 14.83 | top 3.5% | 54 / 945 | |
| 4×4 | 32.18 | 38.82 | top 4.4% | 76 / 1,071 | |
| 5×5 | 1:00.44 | 1:10.40 | top 5.8% | 44 / 542 | |
| 6×6 | 2:14.79 | 2:32.31 | early days — 3 solves | 49 / 180 | |
| 2×2 | 3.32 | 4.41 | top 18.1% | 375 / 1,718 | |
| Megaminx | 1:17.69 | — | early days — 2 solves | 69 / 253 | |
| 7×7 | 4:00.43 | 4:23.91 | top 31.0% | 60 / 140 | |
| Pyraminx | 15.95 | 19.94 | top 85.0% | 698 / 752 |
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
- 27 Sep 2025First competition: Puzzling Pakenham Saturday 2025. A 6.91 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Melbourne Summer 2026 · 24 Jan 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Melbourne Cube Days 2025 · 29 Nov 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- The Big Cube Melbourne 2025 · 11 Oct 2025
- Puzzling Pakenham Saturday 2025 · 27 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Riley Dexter — met in 24 rounds, never finished ahead
- Phoenix Patterson — met in 24 rounds, never finished ahead
- Myles Jarman — met in 19 rounds, finished ahead 12 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.91 away.
- A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,239 people have one; it is 0.30 away.
Targets move as he improves.