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Phạm Đức Thắng

3×3 · top 2.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2019 · 2019THAN09

Phạm Đức Thắng has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.96, set at Hanoi Open 2022, puts him in the top 2.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 151st in Vietnam. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since August 2019, he has put 100 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.09 in August 2019 to 7.96, a 64% improvement. He has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.7% of 284,439 all-time
7.96
signature single · Hanoi Open 2022
100
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 57% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingVietnam
3×37.969.38
top 2.7%151 / 2,913
4×432.0835.66
top 4.2%73 / 1,065
5×51:01.311:07.99
top 6.2%48 / 539
3×3 one-handed14.6417.59
top 7.4%111 / 943

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

Ha Noi Championship 2019: 22.09Ha Noi Cube Day 2020: 13.90Ha Noi Summer 2022: 8.06Hanoi Open 2022: 7.96Hanoi COP Open 2024: 8.287.9622.093 Aug 201911 Aug 2024

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 1.96 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 2.08 away.

Targets move as he improves.