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Anthony Brooks

3×3 · top 0.23% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2008 · 2008SEAR01

Anthony Brooks has been competing for 18 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.44, set at CubingUSA Nationals 2019, puts him in the top 0.23% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 158th in the United States. Until April 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 137 competitions since August 2008, he has put 4,014 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.93 in August 2008 to 5.44, a 74% improvement. Anthony has entered 137 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.23% of 284,439 all-time
5.44
signature single · CubingUSA Nationals 2019
4,014
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×35.446.98
top 0.23%158 / 59,724
2×21.222.22
top 1.1%461 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed11.7615.55
top 2.7%426 / 15,683
Pyraminx3.689.08
top 6.2%7,997 / 28,708
Megaminx1:05.891:15.62
top 13.2%906 / 7,841
3×3 blindfolded1:34.003:22.44
top 24.6%499 / 2,092
4×449.9854.29
top 24.7%3,778 / 19,072
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves—
top 30.0%652 / 2,040
3×3 Multi-Blind5 of 5 cubes · 47:22—
top 38.8%0 / 731
Clock15.3020.27
top 49.1%5,715 / 8,927

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

Cincinnati Summer Open 2008: 20.93Austin Open 2008: 15.80Austin Spring 2009: 14.00French Open 2009: 14.79Denver Open 2009: 12.97Dallas Open 2009: 13.50Toronto Open Summer 2009: 13.11Houston Open 2009: 11.68US Nationals 2009: 13.68World Rubik's Cube Championship 2009: 12.31Austin Fall competition 2009: 9.69Toronto Open Winter 2010: 11.71South Texas Open 2010: 11.28MIT Spring 2010: 9.94Oklahoma Open 2010: 9.33United States Rubik's Cube Championships 2010: 10.69Toronto Open Summer 2010: 8.09Small Cubes Open 2010: 8.28Cubetcha 2010: 9.52St. Joseph's College Winter 2011: 9.34Mantua Spring 2011: 9.08Dallas Open 2011: 9.97Houston Spring 2011: 8.52United States National Championships 2011: 9.22Dayton Fall 2011: 6.93Indiana 2011: 7.59MIT Fall 2011: 9.43Hillsdale Winter 2012: 8.84United States National Championships 2012: 8.94Houston Winter 2013: 8.47Hillsdale Winter 2013: 7.81Dayton Open 2013: 8.97World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 8.53Indiana 2013: 7.93Battle of Waterloo 2013: 8.43Leaf Town 2013: 7.94Hillsdale Fall 2013: 8.62Houston Winter Open 2014: 7.13Carroll Spring Open 2014: 7.53CCFC BLD Day 2014: 8.26CanadianCUBING Fifty 2014: 8.04US Nationals 2014: 7.84Rubik's Cube European Championships 2014: 8.17San Antonio Open 2014: 7.79Rice University 2014: 8.10Oklahoma Open 2014: 6.42VanCubing Winter 2014: 7.47Austin Cubing Limits 2015: 7.80SMA Winter 2015: 8.26Orange Coast Puzzle Meet 2015: 7.31SPCS Stanford Spring 2015: 7.31Vancouver Open Spring 2015: 7.55Peach State 2015: 7.45Small Cubes Open 2015: 7.27Texas Two-Day Showdown 2015: 8.38SoCal Supercomp 2015: 6.55World Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 8.03US Nationals 2015: 7.73Vancouver Open Summer 2015: 7.21Dallas Back to School 2015: 7.81Keep Portland Weird 2015: 7.61Athens Fall 2015: 7.64AZCubing Fall 2015: 7.32HOOAH SMA 2015: 7.36PDX Cubing Beta 2015: 7.67Dallas Winter 2015: 7.63OKCubing 2016: 7.38Vancouver Open Winter 2016: 8.71AZCubing Winter 2016: 7.30Dallas Spring 2016: 6.86Spring Scramble 2016: 7.72Do the Cube at the DoSeum 2016: 7.89Albuquerque Spring 2016: 7.19European Rubik's Cube Championship 2016: 6.61Czech Open 2016: 8.01US Nationals 2016: 7.65Oklahoma Fall 2016: 7.89Newport Fall 2016: 8.16Vancouver Fall 2016: 7.28Dallas Fall 2016: 7.64Johannesburg 2016: 7.61Cape Town 2016: 7.54Vancouver Open Winter 2017: 7.47AZCubing Winter 2017: 7.77Utah Cubing for Charity 2017: 7.85Dallas Winter Variation 2017: 6.93Don't Mess With Texas 2017: 6.47South Texas Open 2017: 7.43Vancouver Open Summer 2017: 7.00SnoCo Cubing Summer 2017: 6.92CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 6.57World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 7.41Northwest Championships 2017: 6.97Wake Up Late 2017: 7.70September Speedcubing 2017: 6.57ChicaGhosts 2017: 7.23Whistler Open 2017: 7.32Parity for Charity 2017: 8.37Vancouver Open Winter 2018: 7.71Fraser Valley Spring Open 2018: 6.14Colorado Qualifier 2018: 6.27St. John's Spring Open 2018: 7.51CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 6.91CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2018: 7.56Vancouver Select 2018: 6.32South Texas Open 2018: 7.11Vancouver Select Winter 2018: 6.93UBC Open 2019: 6.53PDX Cubing for Causes 2019: 5.56Oregon State 2019: 7.11Vancouver Island 2019: 6.45Downtown Vancouver Spring 2019: 7.12Atomic Cubing Spring 2019: 6.54Rose City 2019: 6.88Puget Sound Spring 2019: 6.65CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2019: 6.98WCA World Championship 2019: 6.78CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 5.44Vancouver Big Cubes Open 2019: 6.97Chilliwack Cubes Fall 2019: 7.06Ken-Ton Cubing 2019: 7.09Puget Sound NxNxN 2019: 7.16You Better Belize It 2023: 7.74MYHM Puzzling in Plano 2023: 6.54CubingUSA Southern Championship 2023: 7.19DFW Cubing Summer 2023: 7.17Pretzel Mania Dallas 2023: 6.37Corozal Cube Open 2023: 7.45Harmony El Paso Cubing 2023: 6.95Texas Championship 2024: 6.89Corpus Christi Summer 2025: 6.94Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 5.90Minyons de Terrassa Open 2025: 6.76Calvià Open 2025: 6.99Tarraco Open 2025: 7.04Leopardstown Cube Races 2025: 7.28Liberty Science Center Open A 2026: 6.855.4420.9316 Aug 200828 Feb 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 0.44 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.22 away.

Targets move as he improves.