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Taylor James Maru Renau

3×3 · top 20.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2021 · 2021RENA01

Taylor James Maru Renau has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.85, set at Puzzling Porirua 2022, puts him in the top 20.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 425th in New Zealand. Across 6 competitions since May 2021, he has put 152 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.78 in May 2021 to 13.85, a 26% improvement. Taylor has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 20.4% of 284,439 all-time
13.85
signature single · Puzzling Porirua 2022
152
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNew Zealand
3×313.8517.98
top 20.4%425 / 2,095
Pyraminx8.5614.93
top 41.0%546 / 1,141
2×25.666.29
top 47.2%807 / 1,615
4×41:13.341:24.42
top 50.1%330 / 722
5×52:27.912:42.85
top 64.8%225 / 355
3×3 one-handed42.9146.69
top 69.2%389 / 600
Skewb16.0822.20
top 81.5%575 / 666

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

Palmerston North 2021: 18.78Nimble Napier 2021: 18.85NZ North Island Championship 2021: 19.01Palmerston North 2022: 22.22Puzzling Porirua 2022: 13.85Palmerston North 2023: 14.9913.8522.2215 May 202116 Apr 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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.85 away.
  • A sub-8 Pyraminx single — 46,752 people have one; it is 0.56 away.

Targets move as he improves.