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Rebecca Penfold

2×2 · top 8.6% of 186,767 all-time · competing since July 2023 · 2023PENF02

Rebecca Penfold has been competing for 3 years. Her best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.47, set at Solving In Sale 2024, puts her in the top 8.6% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 654th in Australia. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since July 2023, she has put 669 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 85% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 56.92 in July 2023 to 11.17, an 80% improvement. Rebecca has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 8.6% of 186,767 all-time
2.47
signature single · Solving In Sale 2024
669
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 85% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
2×22.474.41
top 8.6%654 / 8,567
3×311.1713.63
top 11.0%983 / 11,709
Pyraminx5.648.62
top 17.4%851 / 5,993
Skewb7.3110.86
top 36.1%1,061 / 3,534
3×3 one-handed26.5132.92
top 38.1%883 / 2,659
4×41:05.371:13.61
top 42.2%1,123 / 3,051
Clock20.3126.17
top 65.5%694 / 1,095
Megaminx3:15.64—
top 79.5%1,076 / 1,277

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

Geelong Winter 2023: 56.92Melbourne Cubing for Kids Sunday 2023: 26.32Australian Nationals 2023: 23.79Melbourne Cube Days 2023: 14.92Mildura Madness 2023: 14.01Melbourne Summer 2024: 15.32Don't Inverloch Up 2024: 13.29Altona Algorithms 2024: 11.52Brilliant Ballarat 2024: 12.50Solving In Sale 2024: 12.34Kensington May Sunday 2024: 13.79Apollo Bay Cubing 2024: 12.68Australian Nationals 2024: 14.12Geelong Winter 2024: 12.09Spark Melbourne Spring Saturday 2024: 11.17Nimble Newborough 2024: 12.42Melbourne Cube Days 2024: 11.21Melbourne Summer 2025: 11.83Brilliant Ballarat 2025: 12.77Solving in Sale 2025: 12.47Don't Inverloch Up 2025: 12.36Geelong Winter 2025: 15.35Geelong Winter 2026: 15.1911.1756.9229 Jul 202329 Aug 2026

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.

Next targets

  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.47 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.17 away.

Targets move as she improves.