People · United States
Anton Smolyanyy
Megaminx · top 0.59% of 34,786 all-time · competing since May 2016 · 2016SMOL01
Anton Smolyanyy has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the Megaminx: a personal-best single of 34.37, set at Utah Newcomers 2024, puts him in the top 0.59% of the 34,786 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 39th in the United States. Until December 2016, no official Megaminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 47 competitions since May 2016, he has put 1,041 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 50% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 31.76 in May 2016 to 7.12, a 78% improvement. Anton has entered 47 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Megaminx | 34.37 | 40.80 | top 0.59% | 39 / 7,841 | |
| 3×3 | 7.12 | 8.31 | top 1.5% | 887 / 59,724 | |
| 4×4 | 31.39 | 36.30 | top 3.7% | 597 / 19,072 | |
| Skewb | 3.48 | 6.13 | top 7.6% | 1,180 / 18,907 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.30 | 5.13 | top 9.2% | 2,384 / 28,708 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 15.81 | 19.38 | top 9.8% | 1,297 / 15,683 | |
| 2×2 | 2.75 | 4.44 | top 11.5% | 4,506 / 40,951 | |
| 6×6 | 2:05.25 | 2:15.43 | top 13.4% | 488 / 4,196 | |
| 5×5 | 1:14.93 | 1:25.23 | top 15.2% | 1,183 / 9,401 | |
| Square-1 | 15.85 | 25.82 | top 18.4% | 1,244 / 6,743 | |
| 7×7 | 5:11.96 | — | early days — 1 solve | 1,602 / 3,184 |
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
- 16 Mar 2019First sub-10 3×3: 7.98 at Lower Moreland Winter 2019.
- 16 Feb 2019Three personal bests in one day at CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019.
- 17 Nov 2018Four personal bests in one day at CubingUSA New Jersey Championship 2018.
- 2 Jun 2018Five personal bests in one day at CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018.
- 24 Feb 2018Three personal bests in one day at Binghamton Winter Cube Day 2018.
- 4 Feb 2018Three personal bests in one day at Penn Cube Day Winter 2018.
Competitions
- Utah Puzzling for Awareness V Favorites 2026 · 11 Apr 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Utah Championship 2025 · 29 Nov 2025
- Utah Newcomers 2025 · 22 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Utah Newcomers 2024 · 16 Mar 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Utah Championship 2023 · 11 Nov 2023 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA Nationals 2023 · 27 Jul 2023
- North Jersey Speedsolving A 2023 · 20 May 2023
- Pretzel Mania 2023 · 25 Feb 2023 — 1 personal best set
- West Chester Fall 2022 · 10 Dec 2022
- Pennsylvania Championship 2022 · 17 Jun 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- River Hill Spring 2022 · 14 May 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Princeton Spring 2022 · 7 May 2022
- Empire State Summer A 2021 · 31 Jul 2021
- Princeton Winter 2020 · 8 Feb 2020
- Branchburg Open 2019 · 2 Nov 2019
- Empire State Fall 2019 · 12 Oct 2019 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA Nationals 2019 · 1 Aug 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Northern Virginia Summer 2019 · 22 Jun 2019
- Meadowlands 2019 · 4 May 2019 — 1 personal best set
- No Place For DNF Spring 2019 · 6 Apr 2019
- Lower Moreland Winter 2019 · 16 Mar 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Long Island Winter 2019 · 23 Feb 2019
- CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019 · 16 Feb 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- CubingUSA New Jersey Championship 2018 · 17 Nov 2018 — 4 personal bests set
- Fall Foliage Cubing 2018 · 20 Oct 2018 — 1 personal best set
- Princeton Fall 2018 · 29 Sep 2018
- Pennsylvania 2018 · 17 Aug 2018 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA Nationals 2018 · 27 Jul 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018 · 2 Jun 2018 — 5 personal bests set
- North Plainfield Open 2018 · 19 May 2018 — 1 personal best set
- New York City Spring 2018 · 21 Apr 2018 — 1 personal best set
- No Place For DNF Spring 2018 · 7 Apr 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- NovaCube 2018 · 10 Mar 2018 — 1 personal best set
- Binghamton Winter Cube Day 2018 · 24 Feb 2018 — 3 personal bests set
- Incredible Pencil Mania 2018 · 10 Feb 2018 — 1 personal best set
- Penn Cube Day Winter 2018 · 4 Feb 2018 — 3 personal bests set
- New York City Winter 2018 · 13 Jan 2018 — 1 personal best set
- UPenn Cube Day Fall 2017 · 22 Oct 2017 — 1 personal best set
- Princeton Fall 2017 · 23 Sep 2017 — 4 personal bests set
- Severna Park Summer 2017 · 5 Aug 2017 — 3 personal bests set
- Big Cube Bash 2017 · 13 May 2017
- Red Cross Cubing Open 2017 · 22 Apr 2017
- New York City Winter 2017 · 11 Mar 2017 — 3 personal bests set
- Rockville Winter 2017 · 14 Jan 2017 — 2 personal bests set
- Fantastic Manhattan Competition 2016 · 20 Aug 2016
- Cube4Cam 2016 · 4 Jun 2016 — 1 personal best set
- Big Apple Spring 2016 · 21 May 2016
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.
- AJ Kamal — met in 120 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
- Livia Kleiner — met in 111 rounds, finished ahead 12 times
- Dana Yi — met in 108 rounds, finished ahead 13 times
Next targets
- A sub-30 Megaminx single — 75 people have one; it is 4.37 away.
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.12 away.
Targets move as he improves.