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Lê Nguyễn Việt Cường

3×3 · top 7.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2018 · 2018CUON02

Lê Nguyễn Việt Cường has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.82, set at Ho Chi Minh City Warm Up 2022, puts him in the top 7.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 437th in Vietnam. Until October 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since July 2018, he has put 156 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 84% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. He has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.0% of 284,439 all-time
9.82
signature single · Ho Chi Minh City Warm Up 2022
156
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 84% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingVietnam
3×39.8211.19
top 7.0%437 / 2,913
3×3 one-handed17.7820.22
top 14.5%222 / 943
2×23.053.93
top 14.8%294 / 1,714
4×447.3551.66
top 21.3%348 / 1,065
5×51:51.991:59.25
top 44.0%303 / 539
3×3 blindfolded6:06.65
early days — 1 solve90 / 100

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

Ho Chi Minh Open 2018: 10.42Ho Chi Minh City Open 2019: 9.87HCMC Pro League 2019: 10.05Ho Chi Minh City Warm Up 2022: 9.829.8210.4214 Jul 201817 Jul 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.82 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 5,987 people have one; it is 2.78 away.

Targets move as he improves.