People · Vietnam
Tu Pham
3×3 · top 0.21% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2016 · 2016PHAM06
Tu Pham has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.38, set at Clare Valley Cubing 2022, puts him in the top 0.21% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 12th in Vietnam. Until April 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since June 2016, he has put 844 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 94% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.84 in June 2016 to 5.38, a 66% improvement. Tu has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Vietnam | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 5.38 | 7.13 | top 0.21% | 12 / 2,913 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 9.15 | 13.46 | top 0.58% | 10 / 943 | |
| 2×2 | 2.12 | 3.21 | top 5.6% | 82 / 1,714 | |
| 4×4 | 35.04 | 41.23 | top 6.7% | 119 / 1,065 | |
| Pyraminx | 7.47 | 16.52 | top 31.8% | 286 / 750 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 25 Jan 2020Three personal bests in one day at Melbourne Summer 2020.
- 10 Aug 2019Three personal bests in one day at Horsham 2019.
- 19 Jan 2019Four personal bests in one day at Adelaide Summer 2019.
- 22 Oct 2017First sub-10 3×3: 9.87 at Ho Chi Minh Cube Day 2017.
- 22 Oct 2017Three personal bests in one day at Ho Chi Minh Cube Day 2017.
- 19 Aug 2017Three personal bests in one day at Ho Chi Minh City Open 2017.
Competitions
- Vietnam Championship 2024 · 19 Jul 2024
- Australian Nationals 2024 · 12 Jul 2024
- Adelaide Summer 2024 · 13 Jan 2024
- Adelaide Autumn 2023 · 21 May 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Adelaide Summer 2023 · 28 Jan 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Melbourne Summer 2023 · 20 Jan 2023
- Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2022 · 15 Dec 2022 — 1 personal best set
- South Australian Open 2022 · 5 Nov 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Australian Nationals 2022 · 30 Sep 2022
- Clare Valley Cubing 2022 · 21 Aug 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Adelaide Autumn 2022 · 22 May 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Adelaide Summer 2022 · 15 Jan 2022 — 1 personal best set
- SA State Championship 2021 · 5 Jun 2021 — 1 personal best set
- Melbourne Summer 2020 · 25 Jan 2020 — 3 personal bests set
- Adelaide Summer 2020 · 11 Jan 2020 — 1 personal best set
- Horsham 2019 · 10 Aug 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- WCA World Championship 2019 · 11 Jul 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Adelaide Summer 2019 · 19 Jan 2019 — 4 personal bests set
- Ho Chi Minh Spring Open 2018 · 15 Apr 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- Ho Chi Minh Cube Day 2017 · 22 Oct 2017 — 3 personal bests set
- Ho Chi Minh City Open 2017 · 19 Aug 2017 — 3 personal bests set
- HCMC Summer Open 2016 · 30 Jul 2016 — 2 personal bests set
- Singapore Cubewerkz Open 2016 · 18 Jun 2016
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.
- Seth Ferry — met in 86 rounds, finished ahead 41 times
- Leo Hock-Morris — met in 85 rounds, finished ahead 70 times
- Gerard McGinley — met in 83 rounds, finished ahead 62 times
Next targets
- A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.38 away.
- A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 1.15 away.
Targets move as he improves.