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Henry Tran

3×3 · top 3.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2023 · 2023TRAN04

Henry Tran has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.45, set at North-East Melbourne March Sunday 2026, puts him in the top 3.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 345th in Australia. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 38 competitions since January 2023, he has put 930 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 61% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.64 in January 2023 to 8.45, a 42% improvement. Henry has entered 38 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.6% of 284,439 all-time
8.45
signature single · North-East Melbourne March Sunday 2026
930
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 61% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
3×38.4510.57
top 3.6%345 / 11,709
2×22.573.11
top 9.6%728 / 8,567
Clock6.648.04
top 9.6%117 / 1,095
4×438.8844.39
top 10.8%280 / 3,051
5×51:09.541:25.56
top 11.3%152 / 1,356
3×3 one-handed17.0522.95
top 12.7%290 / 2,659
Pyraminx6.129.52
top 20.9%1,042 / 5,993
Megaminx1:20.561:31.55
top 22.2%267 / 1,277
6×62:46.722:58.62
top 34.4%210 / 641
Square-123.4826.96
top 35.8%344 / 899
7×74:32.775:05.26
top 42.0%204 / 523
3×3 blindfolded2:28.843:03.09
top 42.8%183 / 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

Melbourne Summer 2023: 14.64Kensington Summer Saturday 2023: 13.46Speedcubing at Seaworks 2023: 14.11St Oliver's Speedy Sunday 2023: 12.91Victorian Open 2023: 12.43Melbourne Cubing for Kids Sunday 2023: 12.31Cranbourne Spring Saturday 2023: 12.46Melbourne Cube Days 2023: 9.37Hampton Park Summer Saturday 2023: 10.31Melbourne Summer 2024: 11.22Altona Algorithms 2024: 9.86Solving In Sale 2024: 11.68Kensington May Saturday 2024: 10.79Australian Nationals 2024: 11.55The Big Cube Melbourne 2024: 10.28Spark Melbourne Spring Saturday 2024: 9.33Melbourne Cube Days 2024: 9.34Melbourne Summer 2025: 9.34Spark Melbourne February 2025: 9.50VIC State Championship 2025: 11.06Spark Melbourne July 2025: 9.48Puzzling Pakenham Sunday 2025: 9.01The Big Cube Melbourne 2025: 11.56Melbourne Cube Days 2025: 10.16Melbourne Summer 2026: 10.27North-East Melbourne March Sunday 2026: 8.45Spark Melbourne Autumn Saturday 2026: 9.02Australian Nationals 2026: 8.738.4514.6420 Jan 20239 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.45 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.57 away.

Targets move as he improves.