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Franklin Pham

3×3 · top 1.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2020 · 2020PHAM01

Franklin Pham has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.72, set at UCSD Extravaganza 2023, puts him in the top 1.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 655th in the United States. Until January 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 40 competitions since January 2020, he has put 1,460 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 94% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.03 in January 2020 to 6.72, a 65% improvement. Franklin has entered 40 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.0% of 284,439 all-time
6.72
signature single · UCSD Extravaganza 2023
1,460
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 94% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.729.02
top 1.0%655 / 59,724
Pyraminx2.072.81
top 1.3%347 / 28,708
Skewb2.534.74
top 3.0%457 / 18,907
4×430.7136.63
top 3.3%526 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed13.2716.41
top 4.8%684 / 15,683
2×22.092.98
top 5.4%2,134 / 40,951
Square-111.7014.84
top 9.3%661 / 6,743
Clock6.638.24
top 9.6%738 / 8,927
5×51:17.051:24.88
top 16.9%1,305 / 9,401
6×62:32.202:40.36
top 26.7%940 / 4,196
Megaminx1:39.641:49.64
top 34.4%2,441 / 7,841
7×74:15.814:44.24
top 36.4%1,023 / 3,184
3×3 blindfolded3:55.46
early days — 3 solves1,396 / 2,092

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 Winter 2020: 19.03Westview Winter A 2021: 10.12San Diego Spring 2022: 9.16Long Beach Spring 2022: 8.32Marshall Middle Slice 2022: 8.05San Diego's Final Cube-Down 2022: 7.02Chula Vista Winter 2023: 8.49Oak Valley Winter A 2023: 8.91Marshall Cubing Spring 2023: 8.49UCSD Spring 2023: 8.30Westview Cubing Favorites 2023: 8.82UCSD Extravaganza 2023: 6.72UCSD Winter 2023: 8.14Poway Cubing Winter 2024: 8.09San Diego Newcomers 2024: 9.06Westview Cubing Favorites 2024: 10.27CubingUSA Western Championship 2024: 8.26Super Duper San Diego 2024: 7.81SoCal Speedcubing at Super STEM Saturday 2025: 8.72UCSD Maybe 2025: 7.27Westview Cubing Favorites 2025: 9.16West Coast Cubing Tour: San Diego 2025: 8.91Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 8.45UCLA Summer 2025: 8.43UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025: 8.51Mission Viejo Fall 2025: 8.70Temecula Valley Winter 2025: 8.12Super Duper San Diego 2026: 8.05Agoura Winter 2026: 7.95Simi Mini B 2026: 7.90UCLA Spring 2026: 8.21UCSD TritoNxN 2026: 8.74Berkeley Pre-Cal Day 2026: 8.66City of STEM LA 2026: 7.86West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2026: 8.43Agoura Summer 2026: 7.90Temecula Valley Summer 2026: 8.12Temecula Valley Back To School 2026: 7.596.7219.0318 Jan 202022 Aug 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.

  • Joel Kim — met in 180 rounds, finished ahead 102 times
  • Andy French — met in 173 rounds, finished ahead 71 times
  • August Barnard — met in 169 rounds, finished ahead 115 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.72 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.07 away.

Targets move as he improves.