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Dan Nguyen

3×3 · top 2.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2018 · 2018NGUY14

Dan Nguyen has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.74, set at Simi Mini A 2026, puts him in the top 2.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,375th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 55 competitions since April 2018, he has put 1,050 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 84% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.24 in April 2018 to 7.74, a 67% improvement. Dan has entered 55 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.4% of 284,439 all-time
7.74
signature single · Simi Mini A 2026
1,050
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 84% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.7410.03
top 2.4%1,375 / 59,724
2×22.164.28
top 5.9%2,357 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed21.9528.04
top 25.9%3,344 / 15,683
4×452.4959.46
top 27.8%4,299 / 19,072
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves41.00
top 30.0%652 / 2,040
3×3 blindfolded1:56.64—
top 32.4%669 / 2,092
5×51:49.232:02.95
top 42.0%3,412 / 9,401
Megaminx2:10.082:34.22
top 51.2%3,833 / 7,841
Pyraminx10.6817.89
top 58.2%17,056 / 28,708
Square-137.841:27.02
top 62.6%4,128 / 6,743
Clock20.1827.03
top 65.2%5,567 / 8,927
6×64:28.304:50.20
top 74.1%2,934 / 4,196
Skewb13.8822.32
top 74.3%14,037 / 18,907
3×3 Multi-Blind4 of 6 cubes · 51:56—
early days — 3 solves596 / 731
7×78:54.80—
early days — 3 solves3,020 / 3,184
4×4 blindfolded23:44.00—
early days — 1 solve412 / 440

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

Cerritos Open 2018: 23.24West Coast Cubing Tour - Los Angeles 2018: 17.00Anaheim Fall 2018: 17.14Mudd Winter 2019: 14.80Anaheim Winter A 2022: 11.90Geffen Spring 2022: 11.14Circle City Summer 2022: 10.76Irvine Summer 2022: 10.63WCC Western Championship 2022: 10.90Circle City Supercharged 2022: 10.57Marshall Cubing Spring 2023: 9.02Circle City Turbocharged 2023: 10.55Pride in Long Beach 2023: 9.75Agoura Cubing Again 2023: 8.48Santa Ana Summer B 2023: 9.61Corona Summer 2023: 10.55Irvine Fall 2023: 10.38Nub Open Mission Viejo 2023: 10.00Beckman Gets Big 2023: 8.62University Heights Cubing Winter 2024: 10.80USC Cubing 2024: 10.85Fullerton Winter 2024: 9.01Nub Open Yucaipa 2024: 9.26CubingUSA Western Championship 2024: 10.12Aliso Niguel Summer 2024: 10.67Nub Open Lake Forest 2024: 9.03Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2025: 8.74UCLA Spring 2025: 9.25Let's Cube Long Beach 2025: 8.71West Coast Cubing Tour: Los Angeles 2025: 8.65Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 9.71UCLA Summer 2025: 9.58UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025: 9.46West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2025: 8.31Nub Open Trabuco Hills Fall 2025: 8.95Mission Viejo Fall 2025: 9.42Poly Cubed at Pomona 2025: 8.60Huntington Park Winter 2025: 8.22Temecula Valley Winter 2025: 7.99Simi Mini A 2026: 7.74Temecula Valley Spring 2026: 9.59Poly Cubed at Pomona 2026: 9.13Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2026: 9.11Westerns Warmup Riverside A 2026: 8.92West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2026: 7.75Agoura Summer 2026: 8.79Temecula Valley Summer 2026: 9.437.7423.2414 Apr 201825 Jul 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.74 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.16 away.

Targets move as he improves.