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Trung Tran

3×3 · top 1.3% of 288,433 all-time · competing since May 2017 · 2017TRUN05

Trung Tran has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.00, set at Playford Cubing 2023, puts him in the top 1.3% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 70th in Vietnam. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since May 2017, he has put 747 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 66% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.93 in May 2017 to 7.00, a 59% improvement. Trung has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.3% of 288,433 all-time
7.00
signature single · Playford Cubing 2023
747
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingVietnam
3×37.008.53
top 1.3%70 / 2,920
2×21.413.14
top 1.8%32 / 1,718
4×430.1434.62
top 3.0%46 / 1,071
Pyraminx3.404.84
top 5.1%54 / 752
Skewb3.164.50
top 5.8%34 / 534
5×51:10.801:25.67
top 12.2%84 / 542
3×3 one-handed17.2919.43
top 13.4%209 / 945
Square-115.0121.14
top 16.5%39 / 163
Megaminx1:42.071:50.80
top 35.9%113 / 253
6×63:04.523:12.73
early days — 3 solves108 / 180
Clock23.5824.77
top 73.8%165 / 204

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 Warm Up 2017: 16.93Ho Chi Minh Cube Day 2017: 11.29Ho Chi Minh Open 2018: 10.48Ho Chi Minh Let's Cube 2019: 9.80Ho Chi Minh City Open 2019: 9.14HCMC Pro League 2019: 10.69South Australian Open 2022: 7.32Adelaide Summer 2023: 8.67Adelaide Autumn 2023: 8.08Adelaide Winter Sunday 2023: 7.54South Australian Open 2023: 7.97Playford Cubing 2023: 7.00Adelaide Summer 2024: 7.85All Welcome Adelaide 2024: 7.93Tramsheds VII: Spring Sunday 2025: 7.73NxNjoyable Sydney Gathering 2026: 7.64Puzzling Parramatta 2026: 8.287.0016.9328 May 201723 May 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.

  • Jonah Blakeley — met in 76 rounds, finished ahead 57 times
  • Adrian Oon — met in 67 rounds, finished ahead 48 times
  • Aston Culf — met in 64 rounds, finished ahead 59 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.00 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.41 away.

Targets move as he improves.