People · Vietnam
Ngô Minh Đức
3×3 · top 5.2% of 288,433 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 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 329th in Vietnam. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since January 2019, he has put 398 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 36,406 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 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% 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 | 9.14 | 10.66 | top 5.2% | 329 / 2,920 | |
| 2×2 | 2.14 | 2.99 | top 5.8% | 84 / 1,718 | |
| 4×4 | 36.93 | 48.01 | top 8.7% | 147 / 1,071 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 19.51 | 23.55 | top 19.3% | 283 / 945 | |
| Pyraminx | 6.32 | 8.28 | top 22.4% | 194 / 752 | |
| 5×5 | 2:00.85 | — | top 49.9% | 339 / 542 | |
| Megaminx | 2:11.89 | — | early days — 2 solves | 165 / 253 | |
| Skewb | 10.96 | 17.57 | top 60.6% | 362 / 534 |
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
- 26 Apr 2025Three personal bests in one day at NxN in Hanoi 2025.
- 14 Dec 2024Three personal bests in one day at Hanoi Winter 2024.
- 25 May 2024First sub-10 3×3: 9.72 at Aeon Mall Long Bien 2024.
- 25 May 2024Four personal bests in one day at Aeon Mall Long Bien 2024.
- 27 Jan 2024Three personal bests in one day at NxN in Hanoi 2024.
- 22 Jul 2023Four personal bests in one day at Hanoi Summer 2023.
Competitions
- Hanoi Big Cubes 2026 · 27 Sep 2026
- Vietnam Championship 2026 · 14 Aug 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Hanoi CSP Open 2026 · 28 Jun 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Cube Against Cancer Hanoi 2026 · 14 Apr 2026 — 1 personal best set
- MYHM HaNxNoi 2026 · 21 Mar 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Hanoi Summer 2025 · 20 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- NxN in Hanoi 2025 · 26 Apr 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- HCMC VNC Warm Up 2025 · 12 Apr 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Hanoi Winter 2024 · 14 Dec 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Vietnam Championship 2024 · 19 Jul 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Aeon Mall Long Bien 2024 · 25 May 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- NxN in Hanoi 2024 · 27 Jan 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Hanoi Summer 2023 · 22 Jul 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- Hanoi Super Brain Zyo 2023 · 25 Feb 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Hanoi Open 2022 · 18 Sep 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Ha Noi Summer 2022 · 16 Jul 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Ha Noi Cube Day 2019 · 20 Jan 2019
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.
- Nông Quốc Duy — met in 79 rounds, never finished ahead
- Đặng Trần Diễn — met in 77 rounds, finished ahead once
- Nông Quốc Khánh — met in 66 rounds, finished ahead 19 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 1.14 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.14 away.
Targets move as he improves.