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Renae Chen

2×2 · top 5.0% of 189,179 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024CHEN19

Renae Chen has been competing for 3 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 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 381st in Australia. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since March 2024, she has put 543 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 66% of the 36,406 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 19 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 5.0% of 189,179 all-time
2.04
signature single · Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025
543
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
2×22.043.86
top 5.0%381 / 8,727
3×39.7712.50
top 6.9%639 / 11,943
Pyraminx4.116.33
top 8.3%383 / 6,109
Skewb4.156.67
top 12.0%310 / 3,589
Megaminx1:26.881:34.93
top 26.2%332 / 1,313
Clock12.1914.13
top 35.9%393 / 1,159
4×41:04.101:10.88
top 40.9%1,104 / 3,108
3×3 one-handed29.6837.58
top 46.0%1,087 / 2,685
5×52:26.13—
top 64.1%914 / 1,412

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

Altona Algorithms 2024: 34.62Australian Nationals 2024: 22.12Spark Melbourne Spring Saturday 2024: 19.65Melbourne Cube Days 2024: 15.56Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2024: 16.39Melbourne Summer 2025: 15.48VIC State Championship 2025: 13.91Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 12.60Spark Melbourne July 2025: 11.67Australian Nationals 2025: 12.63The Big Cube Melbourne 2025: 10.59Melbourne Cube Days 2025: 11.47Melbourne Summer 2026: 11.19North-East Melbourne March Sunday 2026: 10.53West Melbourne Open 2026: 9.77Spark Melbourne Autumn Sunday 2026: 10.26Australian Nationals 2026: 11.30Puzzling Pakenham Sunday 2026: 11.609.7734.622 Mar 202427 Sep 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 — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.04 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 1.77 away.

Targets move as she improves.