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Lauren Phung

3×3 · top 0.67% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2016 · 2016PHUN02

Lauren Phung has been competing for 10 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.28, set at Brockport Bolt 2025, puts her in the top 0.67% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 442nd in the United States. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 136 competitions since November 2016, she has put 5,510 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 82% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 19.71 in November 2016 to 6.28, a 68% improvement. Lauren has entered 136 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.67% of 284,439 all-time
6.28
signature single · Brockport Bolt 2025
5,510
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 82% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.288.32
top 0.67%442 / 59,724
2×21.212.93
top 1.1%451 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed10.2715.00
top 1.2%194 / 15,683
Pyraminx2.584.58
top 2.4%638 / 28,708
Skewb2.824.48
top 4.1%642 / 18,907
Megaminx55.411:03.03
top 7.6%528 / 7,841
4×436.3141.45
top 8.0%1,207 / 19,072
5×51:05.851:12.97
top 8.9%698 / 9,401
Square-112.4720.95
top 10.8%756 / 6,743
Clock8.8610.17
top 19.2%1,470 / 8,927
6×62:22.002:30.59
top 21.5%763 / 4,196
7×73:42.554:00.92
top 24.4%689 / 3,184
3×3 Fewest Moves36 moves42.33
top 33.6%738 / 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

Hudson Valley Open Fall 2016: 19.71WPI Winter Cube Day 2017: 15.89New York City Winter 2017: 15.65Hudson Valley Spring 2017: 12.55Slow N Steady Summer 2017: 13.54Princeton Fall 2017: 12.19Maryland 2017: 11.94Hudson Valley Fall 2017: 11.65Liberty Science Center Open 2017: 12.10Framingham Frozen Fingers 2018: 10.65New York City Winter 2018: 11.07Binghamton Winter Cube Day 2018: 11.84Rutgers Spring 2018: 10.95No Place For DNF Spring 2018: 9.83New York City Spring 2018: 9.88BU Spring 2018: 11.06Tea Time Spring 2018: 11.19CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018: 10.05Brooklyn 2018: 11.95First State 2018: 10.06CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 10.44Blue Cubed 2018: 9.79Connect Community 2018: 11.09Kew Forest Open 2018: 10.30Fall Foliage Cubing 2018: 11.28TJHSST Fall 2018: 9.82Lower Moreland Fall 2018: 9.32CubingUSA New Jersey Championship 2018: 9.77Liberty Science Center Open 2018: 8.99Northern Neck Winter 2019: 9.97New Hope Open Winter 2019: 9.24Princeton Winter 2019: 9.88CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 9.20Long Island Winter 2019: 10.19Lower Moreland Winter 2019: 9.51SBU Spring 2019: 9.68Ridge Cubing 2019: 9.59Burke Mountain Cubing 2019: 8.61Penn Cube Day Spring 2019: 9.51The Battle of Lexington 2019: 9.23Brooklyn 2019: 9.89River Hill Spring 2019: 9.19Colonie Spring 2019: 8.11Arcadia Summer 2019: 9.02Canadian Championship 2019: 9.04CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 9.60Michigan 2019: 9.16Ridge Cubing Fall 2019: 6.92Providence Fall 2019: 8.95Brooklyn Fall 2019: 8.77Mississippi Capstone 2019: 9.75Liberty Science Center Open 2019: 8.71No Shoes Kentucky 2019: 9.17MIT Winter 2020: 8.98Scranton Scramble 2020: 9.30Princeton Winter 2020: 9.46Country Roads Martinsburg 2020: 9.69Babylon Winter 2020: 9.49Skewbadelphia Winter 2020: 9.53Empire State Summer B 2021: 8.38Babylon Fall 2021: 9.30Slow N Steady Fall 2021: 8.46Empire State Winter A 2022: 8.39Deerfield Winter 2022: 7.48Maine Spring 2022: 7.46Happy Valley Spring 2022: 8.21Ohio State Expo Open 2022: 7.80CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022: 8.30ROC the Cube 2022: 8.84Fast In Mass 2022: 8.52Lake Erie Cubing Clash 2022: 8.51New York Yopen 2022: 9.03Pittsburgh Fall 2022: 8.80New York New Year 2023: 8.11Puzzling in Providence 2023: 7.59Mum's the Word 2023: 7.92Troy Story 2023: 8.10Be Quick in Brunswick 2023: 7.55Rhode Island Winter 2024: 7.48Singapore 50 and Counting 2024: 8.52Johor Cube Open 2024: 7.69Vietnam Championship 2024: 8.72New York Championship 2024: 8.11A Buffalo Cube Day 2024: 8.63Long Island Winter Solstice 2024: 6.35DeNxNver 2025: 8.12Blizzard Blitz NY 2025: 8.09Liberty Science Center Open B 2025: 8.19Cube Against Cancer Buffalo 2025: 7.84One-Handed Open NY 2025: 8.04St. Bonaventure 2025: 7.66Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 8.83Fredonia Finals 2025: 7.79Brockport Bolt 2025: 6.28Gouverneur Summer 2025: 8.56CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 8.70Clocktober Classic NY 2025: 7.87New York Championship 2025: 8.15GA Cuber Jackets Fall 2025: 7.69Fingertricks in Fredonia 2025: 8.83Two York Time Twist 2025: 6.68Turning in Corning 2025: 7.44Elmira Miracle 2025: 9.65Two Buffalo Cube Days 2026: 8.50Vanderbilt Winter 2026: 8.68Medina Mayhem 2026: 8.38Empire State ALL11-Stars 2026: 8.31Dockin and Clockin Dunkirk 2026: 7.91RIT Tiger Twist 2026: 8.14Brockport Bash 2026: 7.31Cube Against Cancer Dunkirk 2026: 7.37Puzzles in Pittsford 2026: 8.06Alfred University 2026: 7.24ROC the Cube NY 2026: 7.62Palmyra Spring 2026: 8.80Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 8.316.2819.7119 Nov 20162 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 her.

  • Chris Chi — met in 420 rounds, finished ahead 90 times
  • Evan Liu — met in 378 rounds, finished ahead 68 times
  • Livia Kleiner — met in 300 rounds, finished ahead 19 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.28 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.21 away.

Targets move as she improves.