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Anthony Montes

4×4 · top 4.3% of 83,917 all-time · competing since May 2018 · 2018MONT20

Anthony Montes has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 32.20, set at Mudd Winter 2020, puts him in the top 4.3% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 692nd in the United States. Until November 2010, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since May 2018, he has put 345 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 86% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.99 in May 2018 to 8.95, a 44% improvement. Anthony has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 4.3% of 83,917 all-time
32.20
signature single · Mudd Winter 2020
345
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 86% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
4×432.2036.26
top 4.3%692 / 19,072
3×38.9510.10
top 4.7%2,660 / 59,724
Skewb3.774.49
top 9.4%1,439 / 18,907
2×22.694.19
top 10.8%4,258 / 40,951
Pyraminx5.758.54
top 18.1%4,823 / 28,708
5×51:20.951:31.92
top 19.9%1,554 / 9,401
3×3 one-handed20.1123.08
top 20.8%2,656 / 15,683
6×63:55.374:19.74
early days — 3 solves2,470 / 4,196
Square-149.371:08.69
top 75.5%4,990 / 6,743
Megaminx3:07.97
early days — 2 solves6,039 / 7,841
3×3 blindfolded9:46.32
early days — 1 solve2,065 / 2,092

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

A Bruin Cube Day 2018: 15.99Nisei Week 2018: 12.10Another Bruin Cube Day 2019: 12.66Mudd Winter 2019: 11.00West LA Spring 2019: 9.93CubingUSA Western Championship 2019: 9.60Nisei Week 2019: 9.13San Diego Summer 2019: 10.20UCSD Winter 2020: 10.39West LA Winter 2020: 10.71Mudd Winter 2020: 8.95Westerns Warmup Riverside A 2026: 9.57Agoura Summer 2026: 9.05Temecula Valley Back To School 2026: 9.018.9515.9919 May 201822 Aug 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-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 2.20 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.95 away.

Targets move as he improves.