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Emily Nguyen

5×5 · top 0.55% of 40,792 all-time · competing since November 2024 · 2024NGUY60

Emily Nguyen has been competing for a year. Her best event is the 5×5: a personal-best single of 44.08, set at Davis Big Summer 2026, puts her in the top 0.55% of the 40,792 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 45th in the United States. Until November 2016, no official 5×5 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 26 competitions since November 2024, she has put 741 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 86% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 8.51 in November 2024 to 6.64, a 22% improvement. Emily has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

5×5
best event — top 0.55% of 40,792 all-time
44.08
signature single · Davis Big Summer 2026
741
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 86% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
5×544.0849.70
top 0.55%45 / 9,401
3×36.648.51
top 0.97%612 / 59,724
6×61:24.041:31.87
top 1.0%40 / 4,196
4×426.8030.22
top 1.3%220 / 19,072
7×72:12.702:25.60
top 1.5%40 / 3,184
Megaminx51.421:02.28
top 5.7%412 / 7,841
2×22.163.37
top 5.9%2,357 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed15.8121.68
top 9.8%1,297 / 15,683
Square-113.0717.14
top 12.0%837 / 6,743

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

UCSD Fall 2024: 8.51UCLA Spring 2025: 8.49Burbank Big Cubes 2025: 7.87UCSD Maybe 2025: 8.30Westview Cubing Favorites 2025: 7.04West Coast Cubing Tour: Berkeley 2025: 7.52Davis Summer 2025: 8.12West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2025: 7.20Nub Open Trabuco Hills Fall 2025: 8.51Mission Viejo Fall 2025: 7.76UCSD Unofficial Events 2025: 8.33UCSB Favorites 2025: 7.49Super Duper San Diego 2026: 7.98UCSD March B 2026: 7.34Temecula Valley Spring 2026: 6.64UCSD TritoNxN 2026: 7.15UCSD Weeknights IX 2026: 9.776.649.7723 Nov 202424 Apr 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-40 5×5 single — 68 people have one; it is 4.08 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.64 away.

Targets move as she improves.