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Anthony Li

3×3 · top 6.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2020 · 2020LIAN02

Anthony Li has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.46, set at WCC Western Championship 2022, puts him in the top 6.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,323rd in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since January 2020, he has put 180 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 64% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.82 in January 2020 to 9.46, a 47% improvement. Anthony has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.0% of 284,439 all-time
9.46
signature single · WCC Western Championship 2022
180
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 64% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.4612.72
top 6.0%3,323 / 59,724
Pyraminx4.2711.60
top 9.0%2,335 / 28,708
2×22.534.09
top 9.2%3,622 / 40,951
Skewb7.8012.42
top 39.8%6,849 / 18,907
Clock13.3215.39
top 41.0%3,268 / 8,927
4×41:12.601:30.35
top 49.4%8,284 / 19,072
Megaminx2:36.99
top 64.6%4,926 / 7,841
5×53:15.86
top 82.9%7,599 / 9,401

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

West LA Winter 2020: 17.82Mudd Winter 2020: 15.28Circle City Summer 2022: 14.52Irvine Summer 2022: 13.73Diamond Bar September 2022: 13.32WCC Western Championship 2022: 9.46Circle City Supercharged 2022: 11.54Agoura Cubing 2023: 11.84Rialto Cubing Summer 2023: 12.129.4617.8225 Jan 20208 Jul 2023

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.46 away.
  • A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.27 away.

Targets move as he improves.