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Oliver Tran
Megaminx · top 1.7% of 34,786 all-time · competing since September 2019 · 2019TRAN16
Oliver Tran has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the Megaminx: a personal-best single of 40.44, set at Springfield Cube Day 2024, puts him in the top 1.7% of the 34,786 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 122nd in the United States. Until August 2014, no official Megaminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since September 2019, he has put 383 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 67% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.32 in September 2019 to 8.10, a 56% improvement. Oliver has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Megaminx | 40.44 | 43.46 | top 1.7% | 122 / 7,841 | |
| 3×3 | 8.10 | 9.58 | top 3.0% | 1,684 / 59,724 | |
| 2×2 | 2.42 | 3.57 | top 8.1% | 3,211 / 40,951 | |
| 4×4 | 43.15 | 51.27 | top 16.0% | 2,416 / 19,072 | |
| Skewb | 6.01 | 10.17 | top 25.8% | 4,199 / 18,907 | |
| Pyraminx | 7.89 | 9.88 | top 35.3% | 9,977 / 28,708 | |
| Clock | 18.18 | 22.09 | top 59.3% | 4,976 / 8,927 | |
| Square-1 | 1:23.08 | — | early days — 1 solve | 6,364 / 6,743 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 16 Jul 2023Four personal bests in one day at Quick in Quincy 2023.
- 4 Feb 2023Three personal bests in one day at Empire State Winter Warmup 2023.
- 30 Apr 2022Three personal bests in one day at Empire State Spring 2022.
- 16 Jan 2022First sub-10 3×3: 8.86 at Empire State Winter B 2022.
- 15 Feb 2020First sub-15 3×3: 12.14 at Constitution State Winter 2020.
- 15 Feb 2020Three personal bests in one day at Constitution State Winter 2020.
Competitions
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025 · 3 Jul 2025
- Springfield Cube Day 2024 · 16 Nov 2024 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA New England Championship 2024 · 23 Aug 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Cardinal Cube Day 2024 · 24 Feb 2024 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA New England Championship 2023 · 7 Oct 2023
- Quick in Quincy 2023 · 16 Jul 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- Empire State Winter Warmup 2023 · 4 Feb 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- The Battle of Lex-side-ton 2023 · 2 Jan 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Amherst Open 2022 · 10 Sep 2022
- Westport Summer 2022 · 27 Aug 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022 · 27 May 2022
- Empire State Spring 2022 · 30 Apr 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Empire State Winter B 2022 · 16 Jan 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Cubing with the Viking 2020 · 22 Feb 2020 — 1 personal best set
- Constitution State Winter 2020 · 15 Feb 2020 — 3 personal bests set
- MIT Winter 2020 · 12 Jan 2020 — 2 personal bests set
- Providence Fall 2019 · 21 Sep 2019
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.
- Marcus Tran — met in 58 rounds, finished ahead 34 times
- Elijah Rain Phelps — met in 56 rounds, finished ahead 10 times
- Derek White — met in 52 rounds, finished ahead 11 times
Next targets
- A sub-40 Megaminx single — 557 people have one; it is 0.44 away.
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.10 away.
Targets move as he improves.