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Kayla Tao

3×3 · top 9.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2024 · 2024TAOK01

Kayla Tao has been competing for 2 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.58, set at Canberra Spring 2024, puts her in the top 9.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 814th in Australia. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since May 2024, she has put 54 official solves on the record across one event. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one; 96% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 18.99 in May 2024 to 10.58, a 44% improvement. Kayla has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.2% of 284,439 all-time
10.58
signature single · Canberra Spring 2024
54
official solves on the record
17%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 96% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
3×310.5811.58
top 9.2%814 / 11,709

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

Capital Cubing in Canberra Sunday 2024: 18.99Kiama Winter 2024: 12.99Chilling in Canberra Saturday 2024: 13.08Cubing in Wollondilly 2024: 11.59Canberra Spring 2024: 10.5810.5818.995 May 20245 Oct 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 her.

  • Vincent Hua — met in 9 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
  • Martin Henry — met in 9 rounds, never finished ahead
  • Bryan Eng — met in 9 rounds, never finished ahead

Next targets

  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.58 away.

Targets move as she improves.