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Nguyễn Tài Đức

3×3 · top 5.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2010 · 2010NGUY38

Nguyễn Tài Đức has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.34, set at Cubetcha 2016, puts him in the top 5.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 358th in Vietnam. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since August 2010, he has put 454 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 64% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.09 in August 2010 to 9.34, a 29% improvement. He has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.7% of 284,439 all-time
9.34
signature single · Cubetcha 2016
454
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 64% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingVietnam
3×39.3411.17
top 5.7%358 / 2,913
3×3 one-handed14.7718.64
top 7.6%123 / 943
2×22.543.61
top 9.3%166 / 1,714
4×444.8750.24
top 18.1%282 / 1,065
Pyraminx7.059.57
top 28.3%248 / 750
Skewb6.4817.98
top 29.6%179 / 533
5×51:32.771:38.65
top 29.6%217 / 539
3×3 blindfolded2:00.77
top 33.7%38 / 100
Megaminx3:10.653:54.71
top 77.9%224 / 249

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

Hanoi Open 2010: 13.09Hanoi Open 2011: 12.28World Rubik's Cube Championship 2011: 11.75Ha Noi Open 2012: 11.13Ha Noi Open 2013: 11.93Cubetcha 2015: 10.41Ha Noi Cube Day 2016: 11.55Minnesota Cube Melt 2016: 10.33Cubetcha 2016: 9.34Ho Chi Minh Spring Open 2018: 9.90Ho Chi Minh Open 2018: 10.44Ho Chi Minh Let's Cube 2019: 10.289.3413.0914 Aug 201020 Jan 2019

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.34 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 2.77 away.

Targets move as he improves.