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Nguyễn Trần Khánh Dương

3×3 · top 4.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2016 · 2016DUON02

Nguyễn Trần Khánh Dương has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.79, set at Ho Chi Minh City Warm Up 2022, puts him in the top 4.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 265th in Vietnam. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since July 2016, he has put 286 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.69 in July 2016 to 8.79, a 53% improvement. He has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.4% of 284,439 all-time
8.79
signature single · Ho Chi Minh City Warm Up 2022
286
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingVietnam
3×38.7910.72
top 4.4%265 / 2,913
2×22.163.16
top 5.9%88 / 1,714
4×435.2341.29
top 6.9%123 / 1,065
3×3 one-handed17.4222.87
top 13.6%212 / 943
Skewb4.416.86
top 13.8%93 / 533
Square-114.2217.20
top 14.6%34 / 161
Pyraminx5.356.61
top 15.4%120 / 750
5×51:17.591:19.60
top 17.2%118 / 539
Megaminx1:53.351:58.56
top 42.2%131 / 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

HCMC Summer Open 2016: 18.69Ho Chi Minh Warm Up 2017: 13.90Ho Chi Minh City Open 2017: 13.90Ho Chi Minh Open 2018: 9.28Ho Chi Minh Let's Cube 2019: 9.71Ho Chi Minh City Open 2019: 9.15Ho Chi Minh City Warm Up 2022: 8.79Vietnam Championship 2023: 9.898.7918.6930 Jul 201614 Jul 2023

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 0.79 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.16 away.

Targets move as he improves.