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Hunter Ray Cates
Skewb · top 51.3% of 73,281 all-time · competing since March 2025 · 2025CATE02
Hunter Ray Cates has been competing for a year. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 9.42, set at Welcome Back Tulsa 2025, puts him in the top 51.3% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 9,197th in the United States. Across 1 competition since March 2025, he has put 17 official solves on the record across four events.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skewb | 9.42 | 16.52 | top 51.3% | 9,197 / 18,907 | |
| 3×3 | 37.44 | 42.34 | top 73.8% | 44,915 / 59,724 | |
| Clock | 24.29 | — | early days — 3 solves | 6,584 / 8,927 | |
| 2×2 | 9.59 | 13.10 | top 76.3% | 31,614 / 40,951 |
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 story so far
- 8 Mar 2025First competition: Welcome Back Tulsa 2025. A 37.44 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Welcome Back Tulsa 2025 · 8 Mar 2025
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.
- Thaddeus Kleehammer — met in 4 rounds, finished ahead once
- Weston Smoliak — met in 4 rounds, finished ahead once
- Justus Danielsen — met in 4 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-8 Skewb single — 30,246 people have one; it is 1.42 away.
- A sub-30 3×3 single — 177,856 people have one; it is 7.44 away.
Targets move as he improves.