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Jordan Nguyen

3×3 · top 3.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2018 · 2018NGUY25

Jordan Nguyen has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.59, set at Kansas Cubing Open Winter 2022, puts him in the top 3.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,224th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 14 competitions since June 2018, he has put 570 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.63 in June 2018 to 8.59, a 58% improvement. Jordan has entered 14 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.9% of 284,439 all-time
8.59
signature single · Kansas Cubing Open Winter 2022
570
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 73% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.599.96
top 3.9%2,224 / 59,724
Pyraminx3.355.47
top 4.9%1,281 / 28,708
2×22.082.97
top 5.3%2,105 / 40,951
Skewb3.475.31
top 7.5%1,171 / 18,907
Square-112.2915.96
top 10.4%734 / 6,743
4×439.8443.75
top 12.0%1,763 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed19.1922.51
top 18.3%2,360 / 15,683
5×51:19.091:25.18
top 18.4%1,419 / 9,401
Megaminx1:21.541:24.35
top 22.9%1,570 / 7,841
6×62:39.922:57.99
top 30.7%1,079 / 4,196
7×74:21.004:38.38
top 38.0%1,065 / 3,184
3×3 Fewest Moves45 moves
early days — 1 solve1,364 / 2,040

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

DFW Cubing Fiesta June 2018: 20.63DFW Cubing Fiesta July 2018: 22.56BarbeCubing Fall 2018: 14.13Respect Kansas 2018: 14.55Oklahoma Open 2019: 12.38BarbeCubing Spring 2019: 11.34CubingUSA Southern Championship 2019: 9.89Texas Out of School 2019: 9.92Dallas Warm Up 2019: 8.77Oklahoma Fall 2019: 9.28Trinity Valley Spring 2020: 9.75Kansas Cubing Open Winter 2022: 8.59Kansas Cubing Open Spring 2022: 8.64Cube Even More in Wichita 2022: 9.538.5922.5630 Jun 20182 Oct 2022

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.

  • Ryan Pilat — met in 113 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
  • Aaron Huynh — met in 82 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
  • Zachary White — met in 53 rounds, finished ahead 9 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.59 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.35 away.

Targets move as he improves.