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Brayden Nguyen

3×3 · top 20.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2015 · 2015NGUY01

Brayden Nguyen has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.84, set at Slow N Steady Summer 2018, puts him in the top 20.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 10,996th in the United States. Across 7 competitions since March 2015, he has put 74 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.18 in March 2015 to 13.84, a 40% improvement. Brayden has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 20.4% of 284,439 all-time
13.84
signature single · Slow N Steady Summer 2018
74
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×313.8415.94
top 20.4%10,996 / 59,724
2×24.925.25
top 38.3%15,344 / 40,951
4×41:08.231:15.28
top 45.1%7,496 / 19,072
Pyraminx9.6610.95
top 50.3%14,615 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed57.68
early days — 1 solve12,319 / 15,683

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

River Hill Winter 2015: 23.18Johns Hopkins Winter 2015: 19.50Doylestown Spring 2015: 21.67Slow n Steady Spring 2015: 15.49Slow N Steady Spring 2016: 19.55Pennsylvania 2018: 19.38Slow N Steady Summer 2018: 13.8413.8423.187 Mar 20152 Sep 2018

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.

  • Corey Sakowski — met in 16 rounds, never finished ahead
  • Ray Bai — met in 14 rounds, finished ahead once
  • Josh Bloch — met in 14 rounds, finished ahead once

Next targets

  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.84 away.
  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.92 away.

Targets move as he improves.