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Ngan Tran

3×3 · top 6.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2016 · 2016TRAN11

Ngan Tran has been competing for 10 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.61, set at Arizona Speedcubing Spring 2023, puts her in the top 6.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 403rd in Vietnam. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 28 competitions since November 2016, she has put 734 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 95% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 18.52 in November 2016 to 9.61, a 48% improvement. Ngan has entered 28 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.4% of 284,439 all-time
9.61
signature single · Arizona Speedcubing Spring 2023
734
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 95% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingVietnam
3×39.6111.41
top 6.4%403 / 2,913
Skewb3.569.85
top 8.1%53 / 533
4×439.5745.61
top 11.6%186 / 1,065
2×22.945.04
top 13.6%266 / 1,714
5×51:18.261:22.57
top 17.7%121 / 539
Megaminx1:18.021:24.77
top 20.5%70 / 249
Pyraminx6.9510.09
top 27.5%240 / 750
6×63:10.393:12.46
top 45.9%116 / 179
3×3 one-handed31.4436.76
top 49.9%677 / 943
7×75:14.635:23.26
top 55.4%103 / 137
Clock23.9226.26
top 74.6%164 / 201

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

AZCubing Fall 2016: 18.52AZCubing Winter 2017: 14.62AZCubing Spring 2017: 13.63Cubing Comp at Hamilton 2017: 14.77Ho Chi Minh Warm Up 2017: 16.24AZCubing Summer 2017: 13.76AZCubing Hamilton Fall 2017: 12.43Cubic Meltdown 2017: 13.95AZCubing Hamilton Winter 2018: 12.60AZCubing Summer 2018: 13.47AZCubing Open 2018: 11.12AZCubing Spring 2019: 13.03Ho Chi Minh City Open 2019: 14.02AZCubing Summer 2019: 12.39AZCubing Winter 2019: 11.12AZCubing Winter 2022: 10.99Arizona Speedcubing Spring 2023: 9.61You Only Need a 3x3 AZ 2023: 10.99Never Stop Turning AZ 2023: 11.09Cubing in Glendale 2023: 10.35Arizona Speedcubing Summer 2023: 10.17Bring the Heat AZ 2023: 10.53Sonoran Side Events 2023: 9.78Phoenix Cubing Open 2023: 11.42Lopes Up AZ 2025: 11.09Arizona Championship 2026: 10.389.6118.5212 Nov 201617 Jan 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.61 away.
  • A sub-3 Skewb single — 3,646 people have one; it is 0.56 away.

Targets move as she improves.