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Nguyễn Nam Phong

4×4 · top 4.8% of 85,040 all-time · competing since January 2024 · 2024PHON03

Nguyễn Nam Phong has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 32.78, set at Hanoi Summer 2025, puts him in the top 4.8% of the 85,040 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 84th in Vietnam. Until November 2010, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since January 2024, he has put 406 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 73% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.77 in January 2024 to 9.03, a 59% improvement. He has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 4.8% of 85,040 all-time
32.78
signature single · Hanoi Summer 2025
406
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 73% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingVietnam
4×432.7838.80
top 4.8%84 / 1,071
3×39.0310.56
top 5.0%307 / 2,920
3×3 one-handed13.7316.75
top 5.7%86 / 945
6×61:57.522:02.63
top 10.1%31 / 180
5×51:08.751:12.40
top 10.8%78 / 542
7×73:02.443:10.01
top 11.2%25 / 140
Megaminx1:08.331:21.43
top 14.7%49 / 253
Clock8.329.90
top 16.6%52 / 204
2×23.254.07
top 17.3%352 / 1,718
Pyraminx6.217.21
top 21.6%188 / 752
Square-123.8336.08
top 36.6%79 / 163
Skewb7.7510.57
top 39.5%243 / 534
3×3 blindfolded4:02.02—
early days — 1 solve69 / 101

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

NxN in Hanoi 2024: 21.77Hanoi Side Events 2024: 18.05Aeon Mall Long Bien 2024: 14.08Vietnam Championship 2024: 12.33Hanoi COP Open 2024: 11.18Hanoi Winter 2024: 11.98NxN in Hanoi 2025: 11.24Manchester June 2025: 9.65Hanoi Summer 2025: 10.85MYHM HaNxNoi 2026: 9.08Hanoi CSP Open 2026: 9.63Vietnam Championship 2026: 9.039.0321.7727 Jan 202414 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-30 4×4 single — 2,465 people have one; it is 2.78 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 1.03 away.

Targets move as he improves.