People · Vietnam
Lý Bảo Lâm
3×3 · top 5.7% of 288,433 all-time · competing since July 2023 · 2023LAML04
Lý Bảo Lâm has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.33, set at HCMC VNC Warm Up 2025, puts him in the top 5.7% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 356th in Vietnam. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since July 2023, he has put 233 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 88% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.93 in July 2023 to 9.33, a 48% improvement. He has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Vietnam | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 9.33 | 11.02 | top 5.7% | 356 / 2,920 | |
| 2×2 | 2.49 | 4.23 | top 8.9% | 157 / 1,718 | |
| Skewb | 4.89 | 7.61 | top 17.4% | 113 / 534 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 22.54 | 25.07 | top 27.6% | 411 / 945 | |
| Megaminx | 1:30.41 | 1:44.49 | top 28.5% | 97 / 253 | |
| Clock | 10.74 | 12.46 | top 28.7% | 82 / 204 | |
| Pyraminx | 7.17 | 8.75 | top 29.3% | 264 / 752 | |
| 4×4 | 54.26 | 57.48 | top 29.9% | 481 / 1,071 | |
| Square-1 | 34.38 | 44.51 | top 57.4% | 115 / 163 | |
| 5×5 | 2:20.62 | — | top 61.4% | 401 / 542 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 15 Aug 2025Five personal bests in one day at Vietnam Championship 2025.
- 12 Apr 2025First sub-10 3×3: 9.60 at HCMC VNC Warm Up 2025.
- 12 Apr 2025Six personal bests in one day at HCMC VNC Warm Up 2025.
- 21 Sep 2024Five personal bests in one day at HCMC Cubing Autumn 2024.
- 6 Apr 2024First sub-15 3×3: 13.92 at Ho Chi Minh Spring 2024.
- 14 Jul 2023First competition: Vietnam Championship 2023. A 17.93 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Vietnam Championship 2025 · 15 Aug 2025 — 5 personal bests set
- HCMC VNC Warm Up 2025 · 12 Apr 2025 — 6 personal bests set
- cubingHCM 3x3 Winter 2024 · 15 Dec 2024
- cubingHCM Big Cube Winter 2024 · 14 Dec 2024 — 1 personal best set
- HCMC Cubing Autumn 2024 · 21 Sep 2024 — 5 personal bests set
- Vietnam Championship 2024 · 19 Jul 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Ho Chi Minh Spring 2024 · 6 Apr 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Vietnam Championship 2023 · 14 Jul 2023
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.
- Nguyễn Đặng Minh Thọ — met in 43 rounds, never finished ahead
- Lê Hà Phong — met in 40 rounds, never finished ahead
- Nguyễn Hoàng Thiên Phú — met in 39 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 1.33 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.49 away.
Targets move as he improves.