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Rich Tayag

3×3 one-handed · top 11.5% of 73,695 all-time · competing since February 2019 · 2019TAYA01

Rich Tayag has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 16.57, set at CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023, puts him in the top 11.5% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,509th in the United States. Across 69 competitions since February 2019, he has put 1,802 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one; 96% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.33 in February 2019 to 12.39, a 39% improvement. Rich has entered 69 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 11.5% of 73,695 all-time
16.57
signature single · CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023
1,802
official solves on the record
17%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 96% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 one-handed16.5725.18
top 11.5%1,509 / 15,683
Pyraminx4.8910.71
top 12.5%3,253 / 28,708
3×312.3915.93
top 15.2%8,155 / 59,724
Skewb4.638.84
top 15.4%2,420 / 18,907
Megaminx1:19.151:21.45
top 21.2%1,462 / 7,841
Clock9.4810.92
top 22.5%1,727 / 8,927
3×3 blindfolded1:29.641:48.05
top 23.0%469 / 2,092
2×23.935.93
top 25.6%10,051 / 40,951
4×454.021:03.60
top 29.6%4,627 / 19,072
5×51:46.051:54.10
top 39.9%3,223 / 9,401
Square-127.6332.20
top 44.8%2,912 / 6,743
6×63:55.204:37.99
top 63.8%2,468 / 4,196
7×76:11.887:15.42
top 70.4%2,162 / 3,184
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 3 cubes · 25:06—
early days — 3 solves653 / 731

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

CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 20.33Penn Cube Day Spring 2019: 20.63River Hill Spring 2019: 17.88Northern Virginia Summer 2019: 19.27CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 18.33Slow N Steady Summer 2019: 17.92Solving Hunger Virginia 2019: 20.01TJHSST Fall 2019: 17.76Potomac Speedcubing 2020: 19.92Slow N Steady Winter 2020: 14.38Slow N Steady Fall 2021: 15.66River Hill Spring 2022: 16.07Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 17.69Owings Mills Summer 2022: 18.31Silver Spring Summer 2022: 14.71Think In Fink Fall 2022: 14.92Slow N Steady Fall 2022: 14.60Crystal City Fall 2022: 15.27Crystal City Winter 2023: 12.80Pretzel Mania 2023: 15.48Virginia Re-Open Spring 2023: 16.40Slow N Steady Spring 2023: 13.91Cougar Qualifier 2023: 14.32Cubing in the Lion's Den 2023: 13.53CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023: 14.65CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 17.34Pretzel Mania Summer 2023: 12.58Slow N Steady Fall 2023: 14.10River Hill Fall 2023: 13.09Virginia Championship 2023: 14.09MoCo Cubing Winter 2024: 14.68Cubing in the Lion's Den 2024: 15.88UMBC Winter 2024: 15.58South Jersey Speedsolving 2024: 15.93Slow N Steady Spring 2024: 12.39River Hill Spring 2024: 14.27Cubing at Carson 2024: 14.35Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 15.91Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 14.49Gaithersburg Back to School 2024: 13.10UMBC Fall 2024: 15.91Christmas City Cubing PA 2024: 15.13Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2024: 15.12River Hill Fall 2024: 13.72Bethesda Winter Wonderland 2025: 13.42PA-retzel Mania Winter 2025: 14.16New-Cumberland County 2025: 16.34Slow N Steady UMD Spring 2025: 15.97River Hill Spring 2025: 13.53UMBC Spring 2025: 15.59Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 16.43More Cubing with the Cougars WV 2025: 17.96CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 16.24Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2025: 16.22UMBC Fall 2025: 15.70River Hill Fall 2025: 16.93UMBC Winter 2026: 15.40Derwood Cubing Derby Spring 2026: 16.70Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026: 13.5212.3920.6316 Feb 201914 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 5,987 people have one; it is 1.57 away.
  • A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.89 away.

Targets move as he improves.