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Phạm Nguyễn Thế Khôi

3×3 · top 1.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2024 · 2024KHOI09

Phạm Nguyễn Thế Khôi has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.89, set at Arena HCMC Spring 2026, puts him in the top 1.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 59th in Vietnam. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 3 competitions since December 2024, he has put 99 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. He has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.2% of 284,439 all-time
6.89
signature single · Arena HCMC Spring 2026
99
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingVietnam
3×36.898.07
top 1.2%59 / 2,913
3×3 one-handed12.9113.81
top 4.3%67 / 943
2×23.143.85
top 15.9%318 / 1,714
Skewb6.879.46
top 32.6%196 / 533
5×51:48.241:51.86
top 41.3%290 / 539
Pyraminx8.819.80
top 43.2%389 / 750

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

cubingHCM 3x3 Winter 2024: 7.53HCMC VNC Warm Up 2025: 7.59Arena HCMC Spring 2026: 6.896.897.5915 Dec 20244 Apr 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.89 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 0.91 away.

Targets move as he improves.