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Vincent Chen

3×3 · top 1.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2018 · 2018CHEN17

Vincent Chen has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.04, set at Houston Fall 2022, puts him in the top 1.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 839th in the United States. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 57 competitions since February 2018, he has put 2,724 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.07 in February 2018 to 7.04, a 42% improvement. Vincent has entered 57 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.4% of 284,439 all-time
7.04
signature single · Houston Fall 2022
2,724
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.048.64
top 1.4%839 / 59,724
Square-16.738.57
top 1.4%110 / 6,743
4×427.5033.33
top 1.6%265 / 19,072
5×552.531:00.96
top 2.5%198 / 9,401
6×61:37.491:46.42
top 3.5%129 / 4,196
7×72:32.112:37.75
top 4.1%110 / 3,184
3×3 one-handed13.0018.69
top 4.4%643 / 15,683
2×21.972.86
top 4.5%1,814 / 40,951
Pyraminx3.434.97
top 5.2%1,358 / 28,708
3×3 Fewest Moves27 moves34.33
top 8.0%187 / 2,040
Skewb3.645.24
top 8.6%1,317 / 18,907
Megaminx1:05.391:12.60
top 12.9%884 / 7,841
Clock10.7915.63
top 29.1%2,258 / 8,927
3×3 blindfolded2:26.464:22.38
top 42.1%893 / 2,092
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 13:37—
early days — 1 solve511 / 731

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

Odd Cubing Day 2018: 12.07Spring Forward 2018: 12.00DFW Cubing Fiesta June 2018: 11.08DFW Cubing Fiesta August 2018: 10.94Oklahoma Fall 2018: 9.93DFW Cubing Fiesta September 2018: 9.76Trinity Valley Open 2018: 12.47Dallas Winter 2018: 11.13Oklahoma Spring 2019: 9.81DFW With A Twist 2019: 9.07Ready For Summer Frisco 2019: 9.20CubingUSA Southern Championship 2019: 9.65North Dallas 2019: 7.91Dallas Warm Up 2019: 9.03CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 9.35Back to School DFW 2019: 10.55Waco Cube Assembly 2019: 8.32Oklahoma Fall 2019: 10.59345 Cube Day Allen 2019: 8.20Cubetcha 2019: 8.51Fort Worth Fall Fiesta 2019: 9.54Oklahoma 2020: 8.56DFW NxN Winter 2020: 8.17Houston Winter 2020: 7.35Frisco Liberty Cubing 2020: 8.16Trinity Valley Spring 2020: 9.07Cubing Is A Sport Frisco PM 2021: 9.60Welcome Back Texas 2021: 7.92DFW Cubing Spring 2022: 9.77Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 8.54CubingUSA Southern Championship 2022: 8.00DFW Cubing Summer 2022: 8.14Texas BarbeCubing 2022: 8.33Houston Fall 2022: 7.04Cubing For Water Winter 2023: 8.25Cedar Park Winter 2023: 8.42Cube Against Cancer Texas 2023: 7.14DFW Spring Warmup 2023: 8.09DFW Cubing Spring 2023: 8.29MYHM Puzzling in Plano 2023: 7.82CubingUSA Southern Championship 2023: 8.09DFW Cubing Summer 2023: 7.42Brazos Cubing Fall 2023: 7.31Cube With Attention in Denton 2023: 8.22Texas Championship 2023: 8.50Texas Championship 2024: 8.04Austin Cubing Limits Winter 2025: 8.347.0412.4711 Feb 201811 Jan 2025

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 1.04 away.
  • A sub-6 Square-1 single — 201 people have one; it is 0.73 away.

Targets move as he improves.