People · Australia
Oliver Telfer
3×3 · top 4.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2019 · 2019TELF01
Oliver Telfer has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.62, set at Melbourne Summer 2024, puts him in the top 4.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 381st in Australia. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since April 2019, he has put 253 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 78% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.10 in April 2019 to 8.62, a 43% improvement. Oliver has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Australia | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 8.62 | 10.07 | top 4.0% | 381 / 11,709 | |
| 2×2 | 2.80 | 3.28 | top 12.0% | 905 / 8,567 | |
| 4×4 | 52.36 | 1:15.13 | top 27.6% | 718 / 3,051 |
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
- 2 Dec 2023First sub-10 3×3: 9.10 at Hampton Park Summer Saturday 2023.
- 23 Jan 2021First sub-15 3×3: 11.65 at Melbourne Summer 2021.
- 13 Apr 2019First competition: Solving in Sale 2019. A 17.32 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Geelong Winter 2026 · 29 Aug 2026
- Australian Nationals 2026 · 9 Jul 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Brilliant Ballarat 2026 · 30 May 2026
- West Melbourne Open 2026 · 11 Apr 2026
- Geelong Winter 2024 · 24 Aug 2024
- Brilliant Ballarat 2024 · 16 Mar 2024
- Melbourne Summer 2024 · 19 Jan 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Hampton Park Summer Saturday 2023 · 2 Dec 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Brilliant Ballarat 2023 · 25 Feb 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Melbourne Summer 2023 · 20 Jan 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Melbourne Trilogy Saturday 2022 · 13 Aug 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Melbourne Summer 2021 · 23 Jan 2021 — 1 personal best set
- Solving in Sale 2019 · 13 Apr 2019 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Phoenix Patterson — met in 48 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Myles Jarman — met in 41 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
- Emmet Hobbs — met in 39 rounds, finished ahead 27 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.62 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.80 away.
Targets move as he improves.