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Riley Palmer

3×3 · top 34.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022PALM10

Riley Palmer has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 18.07, set at Melbourne Summer 2023, puts him in the top 34.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,284th in Australia. Across 3 competitions since October 2022, he has put 49 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 8% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.25 in October 2022 to 18.07, a 25% improvement. Riley has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 34.3% of 284,439 all-time
18.07
signature single · Melbourne Summer 2023
49
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
3×318.0719.26
top 34.3%3,284 / 11,709
2×26.447.79
top 55.4%4,424 / 8,567
3×3 one-handed53.771:09.27
top 79.9%1,996 / 2,659
Skewb17.9720.81
top 86.1%3,031 / 3,534
Pyraminx16.7025.25
top 87.0%5,346 / 5,993

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

Koalafication Melbourne 2022: 24.25Melbourne Summer 2023: 18.07The Big Cube Melbourne 2023: 20.6618.0724.2515 Oct 202214 Oct 2023

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 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 3.07 away.
  • A sub-6 2×2 single — 95,042 people have one; it is 0.44 away.

Targets move as he improves.