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Tess Karon

3×3 · top 0.48% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2022 · 2022KARO02

Tess Karon has been competing for 4 years. Their best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.99, set at Adelaide Summer 2026, puts them in the top 0.48% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 51st in Australia. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 31 competitions since May 2022, they have put 992 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, their 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 87% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Their 3×3 best has come down from 22.47 in May 2022 to 5.99, a 73% improvement. Tess has entered 31 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.48% of 284,439 all-time
5.99
signature single · Adelaide Summer 2026
992
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 87% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
3×35.997.63
top 0.48%51 / 11,709
3×3 one-handed10.3912.52
top 1.3%35 / 2,659
4×430.8038.00
top 3.3%89 / 3,051
2×21.833.33
top 3.7%289 / 8,567
Square-114.7324.93
top 15.8%157 / 899
Skewb4.819.60
top 16.7%433 / 3,534
3×3 Fewest Moves31 moves32.67
top 17.4%81 / 468
5×51:22.031:33.73
top 20.7%272 / 1,356
Pyraminx6.1911.93
top 21.4%1,072 / 5,993
6×63:32.523:54.57
top 55.7%345 / 641
3×3 blindfolded4:51.41—
early days — 2 solves327 / 394
7×76:52.34—
top 78.8%386 / 523

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

Adelaide Autumn 2022: 22.47Australian Nationals 2022: 17.67South Australian Open 2022: 13.96Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2022: 14.96Adelaide Summer 2023: 11.89Adelaide Autumn 2023: 9.57Adelaide Winter Saturday 2023: 9.28South Australian Open 2023: 9.30Australian Nationals 2023: 9.03Playford Cubing 2023: 8.50Adelaide Summer 2024: 7.57All Welcome Adelaide 2024: 8.61Half Turns in Hallett Cove 2024: 6.64Australian Nationals 2024: 8.54Unley Spring 2024: 6.90Northern Adelaide Cubing 2024: 8.56Adelaide Summer 2025: 8.05All Welcome Adelaide 2025: 7.78SA State Championship 2025: 7.53Kubing in Klemzig 2025: 6.71Marino Madness 2025: 7.15Adelaide Summer 2026: 5.99Adelaide Autumn 2026: 6.76Australian Nationals 2026: 7.18Klemzig Kubing Decathlon 2026: 6.575.9922.4722 May 202222 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 their.

Next targets

  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.99 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 0.39 away.

Targets move as they improves.