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Tin Nguyen

3×3 · top 7.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2017 · 2017NGUY02

Tin Nguyen has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.99, set at Mudd Winter 2020, puts him in the top 7.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,080th in the United States. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since January 2017, he has put 40 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 33.32 in January 2017 to 9.99, a 70% improvement. Tin has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.4% of 284,439 all-time
9.99
signature single · Mudd Winter 2020
40
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.9913.39
top 7.4%4,080 / 59,724
4×452.9257.88
top 28.3%4,378 / 19,072
2×24.477.83
top 32.5%12,934 / 40,951

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

Armin Open 2017: 33.32Berkeley Winter 2017: 33.62MVCS Spring 2017: 27.67Mudd Winter 2020: 9.999.9933.6221 Jan 201722 Feb 2020

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.99 away.
  • A sub-50 4×4 single — 20,746 people have one; it is 2.92 away.

Targets move as he improves.