Sunday 6 September 2026 Rebuilt nightly from the WCA's official results · export of 6 September 2026 · About
The Middle Three
People → Vietnam → Phạm Thế Quyền

People · Vietnam

Phạm Thế Quyền

2×2 · top 2.6% of 186,767 all-time · competing since August 2010 · 2010PHAM08

Phạm Thế Quyền has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.59, set at Hanoi Super Brain Zyo 2023, puts him in the top 2.6% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 46th in Vietnam. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since August 2010, he has put 375 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 69% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.75 in August 2010 to 8.06, a 17% improvement. He has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 2.6% of 186,767 all-time
1.59
signature single · Hanoi Super Brain Zyo 2023
375
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 69% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingVietnam
2×21.593.95
top 2.6%46 / 1,714
3×38.069.86
top 2.9%156 / 2,913
3×3 one-handed15.3718.17
top 8.9%139 / 943
4×437.4644.87
top 9.2%157 / 1,065
5×51:17.961:23.84
top 17.5%119 / 539
6×62:53.123:03.89
top 37.6%93 / 179
Megaminx2:41.415:21.21
top 66.6%199 / 249
Pyraminx12.2118.01
top 68.5%604 / 750
3×3 blindfolded4:02.34
early days — 1 solve70 / 100
7×76:30.17
early days — 2 solves123 / 137
3×3 Fewest Moves55 moves
early days — 1 solve60 / 63

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: 9.75Hanoi Open 2011: 9.44Ha Noi Open 2012: 10.66Ha Noi Open 2013: 11.47Ha Noi Open 2014: 10.05Ha Noi Cube Day 2020: 9.79Ha Noi Summer 2020: 8.87Ha Noi Summer 2022: 9.02Hanoi Open 2022: 8.70Ho Chi Minh Open 2022: 8.06Malaysia Cube Championship 2022: 9.74Hanoi Super Brain Zyo 2023: 9.188.0611.4714 Aug 201025 Feb 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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.59 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.06 away.

Targets move as he improves.