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Michael Nguyen

Clock · top 5.4% of 32,817 all-time · competing since May 2022 · 2022NGUY13

Michael Nguyen has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 5.38, set at Tacoma Fall 2026, puts him in the top 5.4% of the 32,817 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 436th in the United States. Until December 2011, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 25 competitions since May 2022, he has put 474 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 61% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 31.56 in May 2022 to 11.56, a 63% improvement. Michael has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 5.4% of 32,817 all-time
5.38
signature single · Tacoma Fall 2026
474
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 61% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Clock5.386.46
top 5.4%436 / 9,172
Pyraminx3.665.87
top 6.1%1,598 / 29,168
3×311.5613.51
top 12.4%6,763 / 60,666
2×23.004.67
top 14.3%5,693 / 41,674
Skewb6.328.49
top 28.4%4,695 / 19,164
4×455.3759.08
top 31.3%4,996 / 19,354
Square-131.8840.24
top 53.1%3,534 / 6,846

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

Rose City 2022: 31.56SnoCo NxN 2022: 24.69New Kent On The Block 2022: 19.19Lakewood Spring 2023: 19.08Mill Creek 2023: 22.50Kent Summer 2023: 18.31Lucky Lynnwood 2023: 20.76Lakewood Fall 2023: 23.56Odd Olympia 2023: 18.80Tacoma Winter Twisters 2024: 20.39Kenmore Mini A 2024: 21.51Olympia Classic 2024: 20.63CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2024: 18.81Kent Summer 2024: 14.92Bellevue Squan Fest 2 2024: 15.72Tacoma Winter 2025: 15.17Worlds Warmup Woodinville 2025: 16.36Kent Spring 2025: 13.70Warm Up Seattle 2025: 16.94Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 14.51Kent Fall 2025: 13.23Kent Spring 2026: 15.04Seattle Summer 2026: 13.42Northwest Championship 2026: 13.61Tacoma Fall 2026: 11.5611.5631.567 May 202210 Oct 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-5 Clock single — 1,444 people have one; it is 0.38 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,783 people have one; it is 0.66 away.

Targets move as he improves.