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Phạm Đức Phước

4×4 · top 0.074% of 85,040 all-time · competing since July 2018 · 2018PHUO05

Phạm Đức Phước has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 20.40, set at Hanoi Big Cubes 2026, puts him in the top 0.074% of the 85,040 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2nd in Vietnam. Until June 2017, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 33 competitions since July 2018, he has put 1,597 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 86% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 7.89 in July 2018 to 4.94, a 37% improvement. He has entered 33 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 0.074% of 85,040 all-time
20.40
signature single · Hanoi Big Cubes 2026
1,597
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 86% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingVietnam
4×420.4024.04
top 0.074%2 / 1,071
3×34.946.19
top 0.11%9 / 2,920
5×541.6945.44
top 0.3%2 / 542
3×3 one-handed10.5513.48
top 1.5%24 / 945
6×61:30.211:34.88
top 2.0%5 / 180
Skewb2.245.21
top 2.0%13 / 534
2×21.552.63
top 2.4%40 / 1,718
7×72:39.472:43.72
top 5.4%10 / 140
Pyraminx4.969.91
top 12.9%103 / 752
Megaminx1:32.94—
top 30.1%101 / 253
Square-11:21.56—
early days — 1 solve160 / 163

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

Ho Chi Minh Open 2018: 7.89Ha Noi Open 2018: 8.36Ha Noi Cube Day 2019: 7.25Ho Chi Minh City Open 2019: 7.63Ha Noi Championship 2019: 6.46Ha Noi Cube Day 2020: 6.00Ha Noi Summer 2020: 6.16Ha Noi Summer 2022: 6.19Da Nang Open 2022: 6.10Hanoi Open 2022: 5.53Ho Chi Minh Open 2022: 5.94Hanoi Super Brain Zyo 2023: 6.07Vietnam Championship 2023: 5.92Hanoi Summer 2023: 5.88Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 5.98NxN in Hanoi 2024: 6.52Paradise Park NxNxN 2024: 5.81Hanoi Side Events 2024: 5.66Aeon Mall Long Bien 2024: 6.30Vietnam Championship 2024: 5.92Malaysia 15th Anniversary Championship 2024: 5.92Hanoi COP Open 2024: 5.80Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2024: 4.94Hanoi Winter 2024: 5.68NxN in Hanoi 2025: 5.74Vietnam Championship 2025: 5.55Hanoi Summer 2025: 5.95MYHM HaNxNoi 2026: 6.04Cube Against Cancer Hanoi 2026: 5.56Hanoi CSP Open 2026: 6.60Vietnam Championship 2026: 6.084.948.3614 Jul 201814 Aug 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-20 4×4 single — 46 people have one; it is 0.40 away.
  • A sub-4 3×3 single — 41 people have one; it is 0.94 away.

Targets move as he improves.