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Ryan Chen

Pyraminx · top 0.52% of 129,321 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024CHEN20

Ryan Chen has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.58, set at Melbourne Summer 2026, puts him in the top 0.52% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 29th in Australia. Until March 2013, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since March 2024, he has put 693 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 76% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.74 in March 2024 to 8.75, a 36% improvement. Ryan has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.52% of 129,321 all-time
1.58
signature single · Melbourne Summer 2026
693
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 76% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
Pyraminx1.582.41
top 0.52%29 / 5,993
2×21.612.80
top 2.6%215 / 8,567
3×38.7510.07
top 4.3%403 / 11,709
3×3 one-handed13.6720.13
top 5.5%125 / 2,659
Skewb3.654.93
top 8.6%229 / 3,534
Clock6.778.51
top 10.1%121 / 1,095
Megaminx1:03.451:12.85
top 11.8%149 / 1,277
4×445.6455.67
top 19.1%466 / 3,051
5×52:02.04—
top 50.5%684 / 1,356
3×3 Fewest Moves41 moves45.00
top 51.8%229 / 468
Square-137.9346.62
top 62.7%606 / 899

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: 13.74Australian Nationals 2024: 12.74Spark Melbourne Spring Sunday 2024: 10.17Melbourne Cube Days 2024: 9.58Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2024: 9.49Melbourne Summer 2025: 11.35Spark Melbourne February 2025: 9.43VIC State Championship 2025: 11.01Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 11.12Spark Melbourne July 2025: 9.03Australian Nationals 2025: 10.14The Big Cube Melbourne 2025: 8.96Melbourne Cube Days 2025: 8.79Melbourne Summer 2026: 10.41North-East Melbourne March Sunday 2026: 9.50West Melbourne Open 2026: 8.75Spark Melbourne Autumn Sunday 2026: 9.72Australian Nationals 2026: 9.388.7513.742 Mar 20249 Jul 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-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.58 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.61 away.

Targets move as he improves.