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Kyle Nguyen

3×3 · top 3.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2017 · 2017NGUY18

Kyle Nguyen has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.10, set at Georgetown Favorite Event Day 2026, puts him in the top 3.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,684th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 36 competitions since June 2017, he has put 919 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 67% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.79 in June 2017 to 8.10, a 66% improvement. Kyle has entered 36 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.0% of 284,439 all-time
8.10
signature single · Georgetown Favorite Event Day 2026
919
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 67% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.109.93
top 3.0%1,684 / 59,724
2×21.734.04
top 3.2%1,253 / 40,951
Megaminx50.781:00.57
top 5.4%386 / 7,841
Pyraminx4.469.35
top 10.0%2,604 / 28,708
4×439.5649.62
top 11.6%1,720 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed16.9720.15
top 12.5%1,618 / 15,683
5×51:31.721:42.12
top 28.7%2,252 / 9,401
Clock11.9116.38
top 34.5%2,726 / 8,927
3×3 blindfolded2:36.52—
early days — 2 solves977 / 2,092
Skewb10.4914.66
top 58.0%10,602 / 18,907
6×63:43.803:52.60
early days — 3 solves2,298 / 4,196

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 Summer 2017: 23.79TF3I San Diego 2017: 19.38Thanks Four The Invite 2018: 18.94Thanks for the InFive 2018: 15.14West Coast Cubing Tour - Los Angeles 2018: 12.43Anaheim Fall 2018: 12.04Another Bruin Cube Day 2019: 12.31UCSD Winter 2019: 12.41Santa Barbara Winter 2019: 8.70Thousand Oaks Cubing Open 2019: 10.62CubingUSA Western Championship 2019: 11.40San Diego Summer 2019: 10.55Mudd Fall 2019: 10.08Grossmont Fall 2019: 8.63UCSD Winter 2020: 9.92Mudd Winter 2020: 8.92Westview Winter A 2021: 9.89A Bruin Cube Day 2022: 9.04Circle City Supercharged 2022: 8.86Cozy Cubing Poway 2023: 10.49UCSD Spring 2023: 9.75Westview Cubing Favorites 2023: 11.27UCSD For Hemophilia 2023: 9.79Rialto Cubing Summer 2023: 9.94San Diego Newcomers 2024: 10.06Newark Academy Spring 2024: 9.44Rutgers Winter 2025: 8.53PBs in Palisades Winter 2025: 9.01UMBC Spring 2025: 9.58Summit Summer 2025: 9.52Worlds Prep in Palisades 2025: 10.04The Heart of Texas Fall 2025: 8.95Round Rock Splash & Solve 2026: 8.14Georgetown Favorite Event Day 2026: 8.108.1023.7911 Jun 201731 May 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 0.10 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.73 away.

Targets move as he improves.