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Viet Nguyen

2×2 · top 0.24% of 186,767 all-time · competing since January 2024 · 2024NGUY04

Viet Nguyen has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.81, set at Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025, puts him in the top 0.24% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 103rd in the United States. Until November 2011, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since January 2024, he has put 814 official solves on the record across 13 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 12.61 in January 2024 to 6.30, a 50% improvement. Viet has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.24% of 186,767 all-time
0.81
signature single · Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025
814
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 standingUnited States
2×20.811.75
top 0.24%103 / 40,951
3×36.307.76
top 0.69%449 / 59,724
Pyraminx1.853.30
top 0.9%259 / 28,708
Clock4.965.39
top 4.3%351 / 8,927
Skewb2.954.68
top 4.8%740 / 18,907
3×3 blindfolded33.321:19.32
top 5.1%102 / 2,092
4×433.2637.97
top 5.2%800 / 19,072
5×51:04.691:10.15
top 8.2%639 / 9,401
Square-112.1314.38
top 10.1%713 / 6,743
Megaminx1:04.781:09.43
top 12.6%861 / 7,841
3×3 one-handed19.2022.46
top 18.4%2,363 / 15,683
7×73:44.273:55.02
top 24.9%704 / 3,184
6×62:34.252:39.71
top 27.8%985 / 4,196

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

Tacoma Winter Twisters 2024: 12.61Couve Cubing Spring 2024: 9.77PortlaNxNd 2024: 9.00CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2024: 8.04Oregon Championship 2024: 6.93McMinnville Cubing Fall 2024: 8.07Olympia Fall 2024: 7.38Hillsboro Winter 2025: 8.70Hillsboro Newcomers 2025: 7.48Worlds Warmup Hillsboro 2025: 6.47Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 7.79Battle Ground 2025: 7.26 Bellevue Cubing Afternoon 2025: 7.54UO Fall 2025: 7.78Portland in a Pyra Tree 2025: 7.28Northwest Championship 2026: 6.306.3012.6120 Jan 202421 Aug 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.30 away.
  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.85 away.

Targets move as he improves.