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Nguyễn Đặng Minh Thọ

2×2 · top 0.47% of 186,767 all-time · competing since July 2022 · 2022THON01

Nguyễn Đặng Minh Thọ has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.95, set at Vietnam Championship 2025, puts him in the top 0.47% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4th in Vietnam. Until November 2011, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since July 2022, he has put 486 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 67% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.63 in July 2022 to 6.97, a 49% improvement. He has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.47% of 186,767 all-time
0.95
signature single · Vietnam Championship 2025
486
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 67% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingVietnam
2×20.952.65
top 0.47%4 / 1,714
Pyraminx1.892.61
top 0.97%14 / 750
3×36.978.68
top 1.3%67 / 2,913
Skewb2.135.62
top 1.7%10 / 533
Square-19.2912.72
top 4.9%12 / 161
5×51:00.591:08.12
top 5.8%43 / 539
3×3 one-handed14.0016.36
top 6.1%93 / 943
Clock6.368.23
top 8.6%25 / 201
4×436.9639.21
top 8.6%148 / 1,065
Megaminx58.381:08.36
top 9.1%28 / 249
3×3 Fewest Moves29 moves
early days — 2 solves7 / 63
3×3 blindfolded58.66
top 12.6%15 / 100
4×4 blindfolded4:17.96
early days — 1 solve3 / 10
6×62:13.662:19.24
top 17.2%43 / 179
7×73:27.773:41.91
top 19.0%36 / 137
3×3 Multi-Blind5 of 6 cubes · 29:51
early days — 1 solve10 / 20

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

Ho Chi Minh City Warm Up 2022: 13.63Ho Chi Minh Open 2022: 12.10Vietnam Championship 2023: 10.82Ho Chi Minh Spring 2024: 8.99HCMC Cubing Autumn 2024: 9.50cubingHCM 3x3 Winter 2024: 8.75HCMC VNC Warm Up 2025: 7.70Vietnam Championship 2025: 7.53Arena HCMC Spring 2026: 6.976.9713.6317 Jul 20224 Apr 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-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.89 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.97 away.

Targets move as he improves.