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Trần Ngọc Hoàng Phúc

3×3 · top 7.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2015 · 2015PHUC02

Trần Ngọc Hoàng Phúc has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.05, set at Ho Chi Minh City Warm Up 2022, puts him in the top 7.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 477th in Vietnam. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since July 2015, he has put 306 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 72% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.48 in July 2015 to 10.05, a 39% improvement. He has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.6% of 284,439 all-time
10.05
signature single · Ho Chi Minh City Warm Up 2022
306
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 72% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingVietnam
3×310.0512.46
top 7.6%477 / 2,913
3×3 one-handed15.4123.82
top 9.0%141 / 943
2×22.874.58
top 12.8%253 / 1,714
Pyraminx5.136.16
top 14.0%108 / 750
4×444.2047.54
top 17.3%272 / 1,065
5×51:29.191:36.55
top 26.6%192 / 539
Skewb7.5311.59
top 37.7%227 / 533
6×64:00.974:31.99
top 65.7%152 / 179

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 2015: 16.48HCMC Spring Open 2016: 14.86HCMC Summer Open 2016: 14.83Ho Chi Minh Warm Up 2017: 11.25Ho Chi Minh City Open 2017: 12.29Ho Chi Minh Cube Day 2017: 11.84Ho Chi Minh Spring Open 2018: 11.37Ho Chi Minh Open 2018: 10.94Ho Chi Minh Let's Cube 2019: 11.02Ho Chi Minh City Warm Up 2022: 10.05Ho Chi Minh Open 2022: 12.4010.0516.4812 Jul 201526 Nov 2022

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.05 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 5,987 people have one; it is 0.41 away.

Targets move as he improves.