Recap / Taskmaster Australia

2 Following

1. Emma Holland (172 points)
2. Aaron Chen (165 points)
3. Danielle Walker (164 points)
4. Anne Edmonds and Lloyd Langford (161 points)
5. Julia Morris (160 points)
6. Concetta Caristo, Rove McManus, and Peter Helliar (159 points)
7. Rhys Nicholson (158 points)
8. Jimmy Rees (156 points)
9. Takashi Wakasugi and Wil Anderson (154 points)
10. Brett Blake (150 points)
11. Tommy Little (149 points)
12. Nina Oyama and Mel Buttle (146 points)
13. Celia Pacquola and Lisa McCune (145 points)
14. Anisa Nandaula and Jenny Tian (142 points)
15. Josh Thomas and Luke McGregor (138 points)
16. Joel Creasey (135 points)
17. Dave Hughes (132 points)

Commentary

• In Season 1, Episode 5, Danielle Walker's final score was displayed as 11 points, where she had actually scored 12 points in that episode. This discrepancy was later corrected by the season finale.
• In S3E03, one task had a 2 point penalty incurred if Tom Cashman is able to beat the contestant at the game that they created. Peter Helliar's attempt invited a discussion on whether Tom had beat him at his own game and he seemingly had the 2 points deducted, but this penalty did not carry over to the episode score nor his running season score. Had he been penalized, it would have affected the final outcome with Peter dropping to 157 points and 4th place overall while Rhys Nicholson would be bumped to 3rd.
• Anne Edmonds is the highest scoring non-winner with 161 points while Anisa Nandaula and Jenny Tian are the lowest scoring non-losers.
• Season 2 ended with a tie with Anne Edmonds and Lloyd Langford at the top of the leaderboard, and the season winner was decided with an in-studio task. This makes it the first season chronologically (July 2024) on an English-speaking iteration of the Taskmaster franchise to end with a tiebreaker scenario.
• Apart from the tie in Season 2, the smallest gap between first and second place is 4 points (Season 1). The largest gap between first and second place is 18 points (Season 4). The largest gap between first and last is 40 points (Season 4) while the smallest gap is 19 points (Season 3). The largest gap between fourth and fifth place is 13 points (Season 4) and the smallest gap is 4 points (Season 2).

1. Aaron Chen (3.06 points per task, 54 tasks)
2. Danielle Walker (3.04 points per task, 54 tasks)
3. Anne Edmonds and Lloyd Langford (2.98 points per task, 54 tasks)
4. Julia Morris (2.96 points per task, 54 tasks)
5. Concetta Caristo and Peter Helliar (2.94 points per task, 54 tasks)
6. Rhys Nicholson (2.93 points per task, 54 tasks)
7. Jimmy Rees (2.9 points per task, 54 tasks)
8. Wil Anderson (2.85 points per task, 54 tasks)
9. Nina Oyama and Mel Buttle (2.7 points per task, 54 tasks)
10. Jenny Tian (2.63 points per task, 54 tasks)
11. Luke McGregor and Josh Thomas (2.6 points per task, 54 tasks)

• 4 episodes: Brett Blake, Emma Holland
• 3 episodes: Aaron Chen, Danielle Walker, Jimmy Rees, Julia Morris, Lloyd Langford, Mel Buttle, Wil Anderson
• 2 episodes: Concetta Caristo, Joel Creasey, Josh Thomas, Lisa McCune, Rove McManus, Takashi Wakasugi
• 1 episode: Anisa Nandaula, Anne Edmonds, Celia Pacquola, Dave Hughes, Jenny Tian, Nina Oyama, Peter Helliar, Rhys Nicholson, Tommy Little
• 0 episodes: Luke McGregor

Commentary

• Emma Holland and Brett Blake won the most number of episodes (4). Emma was the champion of her season (4) while Brett was the runner-up.
• Luke McGregor is the only person not to have won an episode.
• Danielle Walker and Takashi Wakasugi jointly hold the record for the highest episode score (25 points in S1E10 and S4E07 respectively), followed by Jenny Tian (24 points in S2E09). Joel Creasey holds the record for the lowest episode score (2 points in S5E06) which is also the lowest score ever recorded in an English speaking Taskmaster episode^note Discounting the short-lived American version, which does feature a contestant scoring lower than this, but only had 3 tasks per episode instead of the usual 5. This is followed by Josh Thomas (5 points in S2E02). Dave Hughes holds the record for most episodes with a single digit score, with 3 episodes.
• There have been six episodes that required a tiebreaker to determine an episode winner. Season 2 is the only season which has not required a tiebreaker for any episode. Jimmy Rees and Aaron Chen have both participated in more than one tiebreaker task. Nina Oyama won her only episode via tiebreak. Only one tiebreak task for an episode winner was done in-studio. Two episodes (S3E10 and S5E09) have ended with a three-way tiebreak. Season 3 featured an episode tiebreak in the first and final episodes.
• Anne Edmonds has been the runner-up of the greatest number of episodes at 6, followed by six people (Julia Morris, Luke McGregor, Peter Helliar, Rhys Nicholson, Anisa Nandaula and Rove McManus) in 4 episodes.
• Jenny Tian and Dave Hughes have the greatest number of 5th place episode finishes (4), followed by Luke McGregor, Josh Thomas, Concetta Caristo, Anisa Nandaula and Brett Blake with 3. Including joint-last placings, Luke, Jenny, Josh, and Dave all equal each other with the most last place episode finishes (4 each).
• The episode with the greatest collection of points is S3E09 in which the contestants earn a total of 105 points, followed by S1E10 with 97 points. The episode with the fewest points earned is S2E08 with 63 points, followed by S1E05 with 64 points.
• Several contestants have earned negative points which were built into the stipulations of the task objectives. Only Anne Edmonds, Josh Thomas, Brett Blake and Joel Creasey have been penalised by the Taskmaster with negative points for "giving up" on tasks, something which was done on the spot rather than Tom Gleeson using something from the task rules.
• The largest gap between first and last in an episode is 18 points (S5E06, between Brett Blake with 20 points and Joel Creasey with 2 points), followed by 16 points (S2E02, between Lloyd Langford with 21 points and Josh Thomas with 5 points). The smallest gap between first and last is 3 points (S3E10, between Aaron Chen, Mel Buttle and Peter Helliar with 16 points each, and Rhys Nicholson with 13 points).
• Dave Hughes took the longest to win an episode, winning Episode 10 (the series finale) of his series, followed by Jenny Tian and Joel Creasey, who both won their first episode in episode 9, though Joel would also go on to win Episode 10.

1. Emma Holland - Season 4 (172 points)
2. Aaron Chen - Season 3 (165 points)
3. Danielle Walker - Season 1 (164 points)
4. Lloyd Langford - Season 2 (161 points)
5. Rove McManus - Season 5 (159 points)

Commentary:

• Rove is the only champion not to have won at least three episodes, though he did tie for a third episode and lost the tiebreaker. Lloyd and Emma both achieved their third episode wins the quickest of the champions, winning three by episode 6 of their seasons. All champions apart from Rove have also either won the greatest number of episodes in their season or tied for the most episode wins. In his season, Rove was beaten by runner-up Brett Blake, who won 4 episodes.
• Rove is the only champion not to have won at least one of the first two episodes of their season, not winning one until Episode 5. As he placed last in the first episode, he is also the only champion to be in last on the series leaderboard at the end of an episode. Lloyd and Emma won two of the first three episodes of their seasons.
• Danielle, Aaron, and Emma won the first episodes of their seasons. Danielle is the only champion to win the final episode of her season, making her the only champion to accomplish this feat. Wil Anderson also managed to achieve this feat, but he placed third in his season.
• Three champions are male and two are female. Aaron is the only non-white champion.

Each episode title is a Title Drop delivered by either Tom Gleeson, Tom Cashman, or one of the series contestants. Of the 40 episodes broadcast through May 2025:

• 7 episodes have been named by Tom Gleeson
• 6 episodes have been named by Celia Pacquola
• 4 episodes have been named by Tom Cashman and Rhys Nicholson
• 3 episodes have been named by Nina Oyama, Josh Thomas, and Wil Anderson
• 2 episodes each have been named by Danielle Walker, Anne Edmonds, Peter Helliar, and Dave Hughes
• 1 episode each has been named by Jimmy Rees, Julia Morris, Luke McGregor, Lloyd Langford, Aaron Chen, Concetta Caristo, Mel Buttle, Emma Holland, Lisa McCune, Takashi Wakasugi, Tommy Little, and Joel Creasey

Commentary

• Tom Cashman did not name any episodes until Season 4.

1. Mel Buttle - Season 3 (146 points)
2. Josh Thomas - Season 2 and Luke McGregor - Season 1 (138 points)
3. Joel Creasey - Season 5 (135 points)
4. Dave Hughes - Season 4 (132 points)

Commentary

• Mel Buttle and Joel Creasey had an equal number of episode wins with the winners of their seasons. Mel won 3 episodes, and Joel won 2 episodes.
• Mel won her first episode the quickest, securing her first episode win in episode 2.
• Mel, Dave, and Joel won the final episodes of their seasons.
• Four losers are male, and one loser is female.