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Nguyen Canh Tien Vinh

3×3 · top 4.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2022 · 2022VINH01

Nguyen Canh Tien Vinh has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.69, set at South Australian Open 2023, puts him in the top 4.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 250th in Vietnam. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since May 2022, he has put 732 official solves on the record across ten 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 19.97 in May 2022 to 8.69, a 56% improvement. Nguyen has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.2% of 284,439 all-time
8.69
signature single · South Australian Open 2023
732
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 standingVietnam
3×38.6910.56
top 4.2%250 / 2,913
Skewb3.387.58
top 7.0%43 / 533
2×22.393.90
top 7.9%132 / 1,714
3×3 one-handed19.3724.09
top 18.8%280 / 943
Pyraminx5.947.69
top 19.5%161 / 750
4×448.0457.56
top 22.2%362 / 1,065
Clock9.5010.54
top 22.6%62 / 201
Square-129.7739.37
top 49.0%101 / 161
Megaminx2:13.47—
top 52.9%169 / 249
5×52:50.20—
top 74.7%458 / 539

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

Adelaide Autumn 2022: 19.97South Australian Open 2022: 13.54Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2022: 13.01Adelaide Summer 2023: 11.21Adelaide Autumn 2023: 12.92Adelaide Winter Sunday 2023: 12.57South Australian Open 2023: 8.69Playford Cubing 2023: 11.70Adelaide Summer 2024: 11.96All Welcome Adelaide 2024: 11.76Australian Nationals 2024: 9.74Unley Spring 2024: 12.46Northern Adelaide Cubing 2024: 11.58Adelaide Summer 2025: 10.08All Welcome Adelaide 2025: 10.11SA State Championship 2025: 9.73Kubing in Klemzig 2025: 9.49Marino Madness 2025: 8.75Adelaide Summer 2026: 9.70Adelaide Autumn 2026: 9.148.6919.9722 May 202212 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.

  • Aston Culf — met in 142 rounds, finished ahead 47 times
  • Dallas McNeil — met in 140 rounds, finished ahead 97 times
  • Adrian Oon — met in 136 rounds, finished ahead 18 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.69 away.
  • A sub-3 Skewb single — 3,646 people have one; it is 0.38 away.

Targets move as he improves.