People · New Zealand
Paula Maddigan
2×2 · top 46.2% of 189,179 all-time · competing since May 2024 · 2024MADD03
Paula Maddigan has been competing for 2 years. Her best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 5.57, set at Wellington Spring 2025, puts her in the top 46.2% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 800th in New Zealand. Across 18 competitions since May 2024, she has put 365 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 77% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 56.08 in May 2024 to 27.04, a 52% improvement. Paula has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | New Zealand | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 5.57 | 9.24 | top 46.2% | 800 / 1,627 | |
| 3×3 | 27.04 | 31.24 | top 57.0% | 1,235 / 2,145 | |
| Skewb | 11.25 | 30.22 | top 62.2% | 438 / 670 | |
| Pyraminx | 12.75 | 17.66 | top 71.6% | 884 / 1,149 | |
| Clock | 23.74 | 25.23 | top 74.2% | 264 / 319 | |
| 4×4 | 2:16.29 | 2:35.54 | top 88.1% | 660 / 745 | |
| Megaminx | 4:27.59 | — | early days — 2 solves | 277 / 284 |
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
- 10 Jul 2026First sub-30 3×3: 29.44 at GAN New Zealand Nationals 2026.
- 10 Apr 2026Three personal bests in one day at NZ South Island Championship 2026.
- 22 Nov 2025Three personal bests in one day at Wellington Spring 2025.
- 27 Sep 2025Three personal bests in one day at Hasty Hastings 2025.
- 21 Jun 2025Five personal bests in one day at Wellington Winter 2025.
- 17 May 2025Three personal bests in one day at Wellington Skewb Showdown 2025.
Competitions
- Solve Well in Wellington 2026 · 10 Oct 2026
- NZ Cubing in the Capital 2026 · 13 Sep 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- GAN New Zealand Nationals 2026 · 10 Jul 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- NZ South Island Championship 2026 · 10 Apr 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- NZ Cubing Heptathlon 2026 · 29 Mar 2026
- NZ North Island Championship 2026 · 27 Feb 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Hurry Up Hutt Valley 2026 · 10 Jan 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- New Zealand Nationals 2025 · 12 Dec 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Wellington Spring 2025 · 22 Nov 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Hasty Hastings 2025 · 27 Sep 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- NZ Cubing in the Capital 2025 · 13 Sep 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Solve Well in Wellington 2025 · 23 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- NZ North Island Championship 2025 · 11 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Wellington Winter 2025 · 21 Jun 2025 — 5 personal bests set
- Wellington Skewb Showdown 2025 · 17 May 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Johnsonville FTOpen 2025 · 8 Mar 2025
- NZ North Island Championship 2024 · 19 Jul 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Palmerston North 2024 · 4 May 2024
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.
- Aneurin Hunt — met in 90 rounds, finished ahead once
- Luke Steele — met in 85 rounds, never finished ahead
- Dylan Himmelfarb — met in 84 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-5 2×2 single — 74,472 people have one; it is 0.57 away.
- A sub-25 3×3 single — 151,957 people have one; it is 2.04 away.
Targets move as she improves.