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Anatole Volongo

3×3 · top 0.25% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2017 · 2017VOLO02

Anatole Volongo has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.52, set at Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023, puts him in the top 0.25% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 20th in France. Until April 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 32 competitions since November 2017, he has put 1,367 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 50% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.93 in November 2017 to 5.52, a 74% improvement. Anatole has entered 32 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.25% of 284,439 all-time
5.52
signature single · Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023
1,367
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 50% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFrance
3×35.526.65
top 0.25%20 / 4,746
2×21.241.88
top 1.2%47 / 3,074
4×426.8829.31
top 1.3%25 / 1,817
3×3 one-handed11.2414.97
top 2.1%34 / 1,490
Pyraminx2.513.63
top 2.2%57 / 2,148
5×557.021:03.92
top 4.1%37 / 1,024
6×62:09.782:22.98
top 15.3%53 / 437
7×73:52.904:18.04
top 28.1%82 / 372
3×3 Fewest Moves39 moves—
early days — 3 solves188 / 367
Skewb9.5113.86
top 51.8%713 / 1,291

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

Belgian Open 2017: 20.93French Championship 2018: 13.74WCA European Championship 2018: 11.20Luxembourg Open 2018: 8.47French Championship 2019: 8.27Italian Championship 2019: 7.72Lonely Denmark 2020: 7.01Lubelska Liga Speedcubingu II Biała Podlaska 2021: 6.51Montpellier Open 2021: 7.20Rhein-Neckar Open A 2021: 6.44Ticino Open Saturday 2021: 7.44Dontrien Open 2022: 6.74Hem MariCubik Winter Open 2022: 6.47Swisscubing Cup I 2022: 6.56Tigery Open 2022: 6.33Sézanne Open 2022: 6.62Luxembourg Open 2022: 6.58Metz Open 2022: 5.58Rubik's WCA European Championship 2022: 7.08Korean Championship 2022: 6.24Daegu Hot Autumn 2022: 6.82Cubing SimCheong Open 2022: 6.02KAIST Fall 2022: 6.83Daegu Hot Spring 2023: 5.95Seoul Spring 2023: 6.57Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 5.52Suncheon Fall 2023: 6.24Korea Qualifier - Seoul B 2024: 6.19FLIP Open 11: Road to Euros 2024: 6.20Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 6.50Barcelona Open 2024: 5.70Uhseo Osong 2026: 6.055.5220.9318 Nov 201713 Jun 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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.52 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.24 away.

Targets move as he improves.