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Ngô Minh Đức

3×3 · top 5.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2019 · 2019DUCN01

Ngô Minh Đức has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.14, set at NxN in Hanoi 2025, puts him in the top 5.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 328th in Vietnam. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since January 2019, he has put 393 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.63 in January 2019 to 9.14, a 42% improvement. He has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.2% of 284,439 all-time
9.14
signature single · NxN in Hanoi 2025
393
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingVietnam
3×39.1410.66
top 5.2%328 / 2,913
2×22.142.99
top 5.7%84 / 1,714
4×436.9348.01
top 8.6%146 / 1,065
3×3 one-handed19.5123.55
top 19.2%283 / 943
Pyraminx6.328.28
top 22.4%193 / 750
5×52:00.85
top 49.7%337 / 539
Megaminx2:11.89
early days — 2 solves163 / 249
Skewb10.9617.57
top 60.6%361 / 533

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

Ha Noi Cube Day 2019: 15.63Ha Noi Summer 2022: 13.79Hanoi Open 2022: 11.61Hanoi Super Brain Zyo 2023: 10.73Hanoi Summer 2023: 11.24NxN in Hanoi 2024: 10.39Aeon Mall Long Bien 2024: 9.72Vietnam Championship 2024: 9.91Hanoi Winter 2024: 10.86HCMC VNC Warm Up 2025: 9.37NxN in Hanoi 2025: 9.14Hanoi Summer 2025: 9.32MYHM HaNxNoi 2026: 9.68Cube Against Cancer Hanoi 2026: 10.34Hanoi CSP Open 2026: 10.90Vietnam Championship 2026: 10.029.1415.6320 Jan 201914 Aug 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.14 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.14 away.

Targets move as he improves.