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Anthony Tighe

3×3 · top 4.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2021 · 2021TIGH01

Anthony Tighe has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.64, set at Turnin' Offaly Fast 2024, puts him in the top 4.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 66th in Ireland. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since November 2021, he has put 535 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 62% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.32 in November 2021 to 8.64, a 40% improvement. Anthony has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.0% of 284,439 all-time
8.64
signature single · Turnin' Offaly Fast 2024
535
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 62% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIreland
3×38.6410.18
top 4.0%66 / 1,427
Pyraminx3.636.38
top 6.0%85 / 911
2×22.653.75
top 10.4%148 / 1,163
Skewb4.759.27
top 16.3%111 / 624
3×3 one-handed19.5921.80
top 19.4%69 / 448
4×448.9452.34
top 23.4%118 / 579
Megaminx1:39.011:45.25
top 34.0%100 / 283
5×52:09.882:17.14
top 55.4%158 / 296
Square-156.87
early days — 3 solves163 / 194

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

Tuam Re-Open Saturday 2021: 14.32Seaside Solving Saturday 2022: 11.52Don't DNF Dublin 2022: 11.84Dublin Open Saturday 2022: 12.39Irish Championship 2022: 10.78Cork Spring 2023: 10.80Irish Championship 2023: 10.57Solving by the Shannon 2023: 10.00Dublin Summer Solving Sunday 2023: 10.57Don't Fail Kinsale 2023: 9.05Turnin' Offaly Fast 2024: 8.64Belfast Summer 2024: 9.568.6414.3227 Nov 202115 Jun 2024

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 0.64 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.63 away.

Targets move as he improves.