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Nguyễn Ngọc Đức

2×2 · top 1.2% of 186,767 all-time · competing since May 2024 · 2024DUCN03

Nguyễn Ngọc Đức has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.26, set at Hanoi Summer 2025, puts him in the top 1.2% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 14th in Vietnam. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since May 2024, he has put 219 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 58% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.30 in May 2024 to 7.48, a 27% improvement. He has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 1.2% of 186,767 all-time
1.26
signature single · Hanoi Summer 2025
219
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 58% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingVietnam
2×21.263.16
top 1.2%14 / 1,714
3×37.489.55
top 1.9%103 / 2,913
Skewb2.683.80
top 3.5%23 / 533
Pyraminx3.146.10
top 4.1%43 / 750
3×3 one-handed17.2921.47
top 13.3%209 / 943
4×41:17.53
early days — 2 solves765 / 1,065
Square-134.1039.92
top 57.0%110 / 161
Clock21.4428.05
top 68.6%151 / 201

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

Aeon Mall Long Bien 2024: 10.30Vietnam Championship 2024: 9.93Vietnam Championship 2025: 8.89Hanoi Summer 2025: 7.48MYHM HaNxNoi 2026: 8.20Hanoi CSP Open 2026: 8.38Vietnam Championship 2026: 9.227.4810.3025 May 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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.26 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.48 away.

Targets move as he improves.