People · United States
Anthony J. Telford
3×3 one-handed · top 0.48% of 74,621 all-time · competing since April 2022 · 2022TELF01
Anthony J. Telford has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 8.91, set at Rocky Mountain Championship 2025, puts him in the top 0.48% of the 74,621 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 71st in the United States. Until November 2014, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 36 competitions since April 2022, he has put 1,416 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 83% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.82 in April 2022 to 6.88, a 63% improvement. Anthony has entered 36 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 one-handed | 8.91 | 11.85 | top 0.48% | 71 / 15,900 | |
| 3×3 | 6.88 | 8.19 | top 1.2% | 763 / 60,666 | |
| 4×4 | 28.44 | 33.77 | top 2.0% | 339 / 19,354 | |
| 2×2 | 1.82 | 2.58 | top 3.7% | 1,486 / 41,674 | |
| Pyraminx | 3.59 | 6.16 | top 5.9% | 1,523 / 29,168 | |
| Clock | 5.75 | 6.08 | top 6.4% | 513 / 9,172 | |
| Megaminx | 58.46 | 1:03.94 | top 9.2% | 660 / 8,026 | |
| 5×5 | 1:06.86 | 1:08.97 | top 9.7% | 767 / 9,537 | |
| Skewb | 4.57 | 6.39 | top 15.1% | 2,384 / 19,164 | |
| 6×6 | 2:14.48 | 2:27.92 | top 17.8% | 639 / 4,262 | |
| Square-1 | 15.72 | 35.40 | top 18.1% | 1,238 / 6,846 | |
| 7×7 | 3:34.57 | 3:49.79 | top 21.4% | 613 / 3,236 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 7:16.32 | — | early days — 2 solves | 1,966 / 2,128 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 25 Apr 2026Three personal bests in one day at Mesa County Mixup 2026.
- 24 Oct 2025Six personal bests in one day at Rocky Mountain Championship 2025.
- 9 Aug 2025Four personal bests in one day at Vegas Cubing Cup Summer 2025.
- 31 May 2025Three personal bests in one day at Grand Junction Dysfunction 2025.
- 8 Feb 2025Three personal bests in one day at Vegas Cubing Cup Winter 2025.
- 8 Dec 2024Four personal bests in one day at Cubes Canes & Joy Vegas 2024.
Competitions
- A Grand Time in Grand Junction 2026 · 17 Oct 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Vegas Cubing Fall 2026 · 26 Sep 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Rocky Mountain Championship 2026 · 21 Aug 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Pikes Peak AM 2026 · 25 Jul 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Only Cubes in ABQ 2026 · 6 Jun 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Mesa County Mixup 2026 · 25 Apr 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- Colorado Springs Spring 2026 · 11 Apr 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Vegas Cubing Winter 2026 · 28 Feb 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Vegas Cubing Cup Fall 2025 · 8 Nov 2025
- Rocky Mountain Championship 2025 · 24 Oct 2025 — 6 personal bests set
- Vegas Cubing Cup Summer 2025 · 9 Aug 2025 — 4 personal bests set
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025 · 3 Jul 2025
- Grand Junction Dysfunction 2025 · 31 May 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Vegas Cubing Cup Spring 2025 · 3 May 2025
- Happy Crew CO 2025 · 29 Mar 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Vegas Cubing Cup Winter 2025 · 8 Feb 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Cubes Canes & Joy Vegas 2024 · 8 Dec 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Vegas Big and Blind 2024 · 7 Dec 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Albuquerque Cubefest 2024 · 16 Nov 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Vegas Cubing Cup Fall 2024 · 2 Nov 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Back to School Utah 2024 · 24 Aug 2024
- Colorado Springs Showdown 2024 · 3 Aug 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Rocky Mountain Championship 2024 · 20 Jun 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Southern Utah Summer 2024 · 4 May 2024 — 5 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Rocky Mountain Championship 2023 · 3 Nov 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Vegas Cubing Fall 2023 · 28 Oct 2023
- InTents Cubing Grand Canyon 2023 · 15 Sep 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Ski Valley Solving 2023 · 2 Sep 2023 — 7 personal bests set
- Colorado Jungle Jumble 2023 · 5 Aug 2023
- Summer Solving Colorado 2023 · 24 Jun 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Southern Utah Summer 2023 · 27 May 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- BeCubed Spring 2023 · 29 Apr 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- Cubing in The Springs 2022 · 29 Oct 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- BeCubed Summer 2022 · 6 Aug 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Southern Utah Summer 2022 · 23 Jul 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Pikes Peak Good Afternoon 2022 · 9 Apr 2022
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.
- Kian Cline — met in 132 rounds, finished ahead 50 times
- Miles Walcott — met in 121 rounds, finished ahead 41 times
- Cy Hamilton — met in 120 rounds, finished ahead 54 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 155 people have one; it is 0.91 away.
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.88 away.
Targets move as he improves.