If you know exactly what to do, with a tiny bit of luck, you can get the first place with stats no higher than 30. Anything higher than that just makes the Trial more consistent
I mean, then I must've really really really missed something completely, because I used all the options available and they either just failed directly, or didn't do anything for me, leaving me to just have to spam the option that seemed most likely to work for me (thinking through the puzzle) over and over and over and over uncountable times till it worked.