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Hayden Ng (吳宇晞)

Square-1 · top 0.28% of 25,272 all-time · competing since June 2018 · 2018NGHA02

Hayden Ng (吳宇晞) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the Square-1: a personal-best single of 5.06, set at U Cube at UQ Sunday 2023, puts him in the top 0.28% of the 25,272 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3rd in Australia. Until October 2018, no official Square-1 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 39 competitions since June 2018, he has put 2,186 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.57 in June 2018 to 5.61, a 66% improvement. Hayden has entered 39 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Square-1
best event — top 0.28% of 25,272 all-time
5.06
signature single · U Cube at UQ Sunday 2023
2,186
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
Square-15.066.94
top 0.28%3 / 899
3×35.616.82
top 0.29%38 / 11,709
6×61:18.091:22.78
top 0.45%3 / 641
5×543.2849.22
top 0.46%6 / 1,356
3×3 one-handed8.9010.93
top 0.47%17 / 2,659
7×71:58.642:06.13
top 0.49%2 / 523
4×424.3727.61
top 0.56%18 / 3,051
2×21.471.74
top 2.0%176 / 8,567
Skewb2.505.04
top 2.9%101 / 3,534
Megaminx47.1155.36
top 3.9%51 / 1,277
Clock5.006.01
top 4.4%63 / 1,095
Pyraminx3.446.20
top 5.2%233 / 5,993
3×3 Fewest Moves28 moves31.67
top 9.9%44 / 468
3×3 blindfolded2:45.54—
top 48.2%212 / 394

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

Brisbane Winter 2018: 16.57Brisbane Is Back On 2021: 9.10Northside Duology Part 1 2022: 8.26Brisbane Autumn 2022: 7.26Brisbane's 20 in 21 in 2022: 7.63Queensland Open 2022: 7.36 Runaway Bay Saturday Challenge 2022: 6.87Northside Spring Saturday 2022: 7.63Runaway Bay May Sunday 2023: 6.46Queensland Open 2023: 7.08U Cube at UQ Sunday 2023: 6.42Australian Nationals 2023: 7.37QUT Qube Challenge Saturday 2023: 7.59Melbourne Summer 2024: 6.37Brisbane Summer 2024: 8.45Cubing in Corinda Sunday 2024: 6.59Wide Bay Cubing 2024: 7.20Queensland Open 2024: 6.70Chilling in Toowoomba 2024: 6.56Speedy Southport 2024: 5.61QLD State Championship 2025: 6.24Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.16Wide Bay Cubing 2025: 6.47Australian Nationals 2025: 6.40Speedy Southport 2025: 6.09Cube Against Cancer Brisbane 2026: 5.95Wide Bay Cubing 2026: 6.49Queensland Open 2026: 7.14Toowoomba Carnival of Cubing 2026: 6.105.6116.5730 Jun 20188 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.

  • Jamie Otsu — met in 422 rounds, finished ahead 285 times
  • Charlie Eggins — met in 367 rounds, finished ahead 173 times
  • Toby Seufert — met in 286 rounds, finished ahead 167 times

Next targets

  • A sub-5 Square-1 single — 68 people have one; it is 0.06 away.
  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.61 away.

Targets move as he improves.