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Nam Nguyen

3×3 · top 0.13% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2022 · 2022NGUY36

Nam Nguyen has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.06, set at Kensington May Saturday 2024, puts him in the top 0.13% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 17th in Australia. Until November 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 28 competitions since August 2022, he has put 1,177 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.38 in August 2022 to 5.06, a 51% improvement. Nam has entered 28 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.13% of 284,439 all-time
5.06
signature single · Kensington May Saturday 2024
1,177
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
3×35.066.86
top 0.13%17 / 11,709
Square-15.659.97
top 0.57%10 / 899
3×3 one-handed9.7913.86
top 0.91%25 / 2,659
4×426.9031.94
top 1.3%31 / 3,051
2×21.322.24
top 1.4%137 / 8,567
5×550.4055.31
top 1.9%24 / 1,356
Megaminx45.0555.72
top 3.1%45 / 1,277
Skewb2.905.48
top 4.5%144 / 3,534
Pyraminx3.384.47
top 5.0%221 / 5,993
Clock5.646.36
top 6.1%78 / 1,095
6×61:50.141:54.85
top 7.2%46 / 641
7×72:58.963:03.05
top 10.3%50 / 523
3×3 Fewest Moves46 moves50.33
top 68.6%299 / 468

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

Melbourne Trilogy Sunday 2022: 10.38Melbourne Cube Days 2022: 10.12Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2022: 8.54Kensington Summer Saturday 2023: 7.19Victorian Open 2023: 7.00Cranbourne Spring Sunday 2023: 7.17Melbourne Cube Days 2023: 7.10Hampton Park Summer Sunday 2023: 6.79Altona Algorithms 2024: 6.43Cubing at The Game Expo 2024: 6.37Kensington May Saturday 2024: 5.06Spark Melbourne Spring Saturday 2024: 5.93Melbourne Cube Days 2024: 6.35Melbourne Summer 2025: 6.36Spark Melbourne February 2025: 6.01VIC State Championship 2025: 6.45Spark Melbourne July 2025: 5.91Puzzling Pakenham Sunday 2025: 5.79The Big Cube Melbourne 2025: 5.95Melbourne Cube Days 2025: 5.82North-East Melbourne March Sunday 2026: 5.99Spark Melbourne Autumn Saturday 2026: 6.16Australian Nationals 2026: 6.305.0610.3814 Aug 20229 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.06 away.
  • A sub-5 Square-1 single — 68 people have one; it is 0.65 away.

Targets move as he improves.