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Caylum Hudson

3×3 · top 4.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2022 · 2022HUDS01

Caylum Hudson has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.81, set at Auckland Mid-Year Madness 2023, puts him in the top 4.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 116th in New Zealand. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since July 2022, he has put 678 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 86% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. That figure sets aside his 8 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.24 in July 2022 to 8.81, a 38% improvement. Caylum has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.4% of 284,439 all-time
8.81
signature single · Auckland Mid-Year Madness 2023
678
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 86% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNew Zealand
3×38.8111.76
top 4.4%116 / 2,095
3×3 one-handed14.3217.67
top 6.7%54 / 600
Skewb3.336.09
top 6.7%62 / 666
Pyraminx3.817.04
top 6.8%110 / 1,141
2×22.803.62
top 12.0%235 / 1,615
4×444.7448.72
top 18.0%130 / 722
Megaminx1:19.541:24.94
top 21.5%83 / 283
5×51:24.881:29.95
top 23.2%97 / 355
Square-121.0336.11
top 30.3%94 / 251
6×62:40.372:53.36
top 30.9%63 / 149
Clock11.6613.30
top 33.4%124 / 303
7×74:48.175:22.21
top 47.2%75 / 126

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

Three Rounds Whangarei 2022: 14.24New Zealand Nationals 2022: 11.24A New Year in Hamilton 2023: 10.87Palmerston North 2023: 9.66Auckland Autumn 2023: 10.99Auckland Mid-Year Madness 2023: 8.81Tauranga Open 2023: 9.36NZ North Island Championship 2023: 9.05New Zealand Nationals 2023: 12.22A New Year in Auckland 2024: 16.60Auckland Matariki Open 2024: 13.378.8116.6016 Jul 202228 Jun 2024

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.81 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 2.32 away.

Targets move as he improves.