People · Australia
Renae Chen
2×2 · top 5.0% of 186,767 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024CHEN19
Renae Chen has been competing for 2 years. Her best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.04, set at Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025, puts her in the top 5.0% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 373rd in Australia. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since March 2024, she has put 523 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 70% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 34.62 in March 2024 to 9.77, a 72% improvement. Renae 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 | Australia | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 2.04 | 3.86 | top 5.0% | 373 / 8,567 | |
| 3×3 | 9.77 | 12.50 | top 6.8% | 632 / 11,709 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.11 | 6.33 | top 8.2% | 378 / 5,993 | |
| Skewb | 4.15 | 6.67 | top 11.9% | 305 / 3,534 | |
| Megaminx | 1:26.88 | 1:34.93 | top 26.1% | 326 / 1,277 | |
| Clock | 12.19 | 14.13 | top 35.9% | 375 / 1,095 | |
| 4×4 | 1:04.10 | 1:10.88 | top 40.8% | 1,083 / 3,051 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 29.68 | 37.58 | top 45.9% | 1,079 / 2,659 | |
| 5×5 | 2:26.13 | — | top 64.0% | 886 / 1,356 |
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
- 11 Apr 2026First sub-10 3×3: 9.77 at West Melbourne Open 2026.
- 2 Oct 2025Four personal bests in one day at Australian Nationals 2025.
- 31 May 2025First sub-15 3×3: 13.91 at VIC State Championship 2025.
- 31 May 2025Four personal bests in one day at VIC State Championship 2025.
- 22 Feb 2025Three personal bests in one day at Spark Melbourne February 2025.
- 24 Jan 2025Four personal bests in one day at Melbourne Summer 2025.
Competitions
- Australian Nationals 2026 · 9 Jul 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Spark Melbourne Autumn Sunday 2026 · 24 May 2026
- West Melbourne Open 2026 · 11 Apr 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- North-East Melbourne March Sunday 2026 · 8 Mar 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Melbourne Summer 2026 · 24 Jan 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Melbourne Cube Days 2025 · 29 Nov 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- The Big Cube Melbourne 2025 · 11 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Australian Nationals 2025 · 2 Oct 2025 — 4 personal bests set
- Spark Melbourne July 2025 · 26 Jul 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025 · 3 Jul 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- VIC State Championship 2025 · 31 May 2025 — 4 personal bests set
- Spark Melbourne February 2025 · 22 Feb 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Melbourne Summer 2025 · 24 Jan 2025 — 4 personal bests set
- Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2024 · 19 Dec 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Melbourne Cube Days 2024 · 30 Nov 2024 — 5 personal bests set
- Spark Melbourne Spring Saturday 2024 · 5 Oct 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Australian Nationals 2024 · 12 Jul 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Altona Algorithms 2024 · 2 Mar 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.
- Emmet Hobbs — met in 110 rounds, finished ahead 19 times
- Ryan Chen — met in 109 rounds, finished ahead 13 times
- Phoenix Patterson — met in 107 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.04 away.
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.77 away.
Targets move as she improves.