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Khang Tran

3×3 · top 7.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2016 · 2016TRAN09

Khang Tran has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.94, set at AZCubing Hamilton Winter 2018, puts him in the top 7.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 456th in Vietnam. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since August 2016, he has put 261 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 70% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.23 in August 2016 to 9.94, a 35% improvement. Khang has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.3% of 284,439 all-time
9.94
signature single · AZCubing Hamilton Winter 2018
261
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 70% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingVietnam
3×39.9411.03
top 7.3%456 / 2,913
4×449.1252.77
top 23.6%386 / 1,065
2×23.815.47
top 24.1%526 / 1,714
5×51:34.141:43.09
top 30.8%224 / 539
3×3 one-handed24.0033.39
top 31.5%460 / 943
Megaminx1:47.791:51.15
top 39.1%115 / 249
6×63:30.643:45.13
early days — 3 solves133 / 179
Pyraminx10.2712.79
top 55.1%505 / 750
Skewb15.5517.09
top 80.0%462 / 533

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

AZCubing Summer 2016: 15.23AZCubing Fall 2016: 13.86AZCubing Winter 2017: 14.59AZCubing Spring 2017: 13.06Cubing Comp at Hamilton 2017: 12.361 Body Cubing 2017: 12.18AZCubing Summer 2017: 11.03AZCubing Hamilton Fall 2017: 11.10Cubic Meltdown 2017: 12.55AZCubing Hamilton Winter 2018: 9.949.9415.236 Aug 201613 Jan 2018

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.

  • Caleb Hoffman — met in 47 rounds, finished ahead twice
  • Dan Tran — met in 47 rounds, never finished ahead
  • Ivan Vanek — met in 46 rounds, finished ahead 10 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.94 away.
  • A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 9.12 away.

Targets move as he improves.