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Liam Trinh

3×3 · top 1.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2022 · 2022TRIN10

Liam Trinh has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.18, set at Bay Area Speedcubin' 53 - Berkeley 2023, puts him in the top 1.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 941st in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 14 competitions since December 2022, he has put 337 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 72% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 8.91 in December 2022 to 7.18, a 19% improvement. Liam has entered 14 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.5% of 284,439 all-time
7.18
signature single · Bay Area Speedcubin' 53 - Berkeley 2023
337
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 72% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.189.09
top 1.5%941 / 59,724
2×22.014.16
top 4.8%1,927 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed18.7920.63
top 17.2%2,221 / 15,683
Pyraminx6.298.59
top 22.1%5,956 / 28,708
Skewb5.789.10
top 24.1%3,909 / 18,907
4×451.9554.69
top 27.1%4,175 / 19,072
Megaminx1:38.631:52.36
top 33.8%2,399 / 7,841
5×53:01.99
early days — 2 solves7,123 / 9,401

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

Bay Area Speedcubin' 40 - San Ramon 2022: 8.91SacCubing XIII 2023: 8.80Bay Area Speedcubin' 41 2023: 8.83Berkeley Spring 2023: 8.17Bay Area Speedcubin' 44 2023: 8.76Bay Area Speedcubin' 46 Live - SSF 2023: 8.40Berkeley Summer 2023: 8.12Bay Area Speedcubin' 51 Live - SSF 2023: 7.63Bay Area Speedcubin' 53 - Berkeley 2023: 7.18Bay Area Speedcubin' 54 Live - SSF 2023: 9.26Berkeley Fall 2023: 7.56Berkeley Winter 2024: 7.91Bay Area Speedcubin' 64 LIVE - SSF 2024: 9.39Bay Area Speedcubin' 65 - Berkeley 2024: 9.657.189.654 Dec 202229 Sep 2024

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.

  • Gurshan Singh — met in 66 rounds, finished ahead 15 times
  • An Le — met in 60 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
  • Stanley Tran — met in 58 rounds, finished ahead 12 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.18 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.01 away.

Targets move as he improves.