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Lucas Montes
3×3 · top 10.0% of 288,433 all-time · competing since April 2025 · 2025MONT07
Lucas Montes has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.83, set at UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025, puts him in the top 10.0% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5,505th in the United States. Across 13 competitions since April 2025, he has put 250 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one; 96% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 31.40 in April 2025 to 10.83, a 66% improvement. Lucas has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 10.83 | 15.05 | top 10.0% | 5,505 / 60,666 | |
| Pyraminx | 6.58 | 7.57 | top 24.5% | 6,785 / 29,168 | |
| 2×2 | 3.95 | 4.62 | top 25.9% | 10,331 / 41,674 | |
| Clock | 13.23 | 15.77 | top 40.6% | 3,318 / 9,172 | |
| Skewb | 10.85 | 16.39 | top 60.0% | 11,168 / 19,164 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 39.40 | 57.49 | top 64.5% | 9,274 / 15,900 | |
| 4×4 | 1:49.47 | — | top 76.5% | 14,214 / 19,354 |
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
- 29 Aug 2025Three personal bests in one day at West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2025.
- 20 Jul 2025First sub-15 3×3: 12.48 at UCLA Summer 2025.
- 25 May 2025First sub-20 3×3: 16.51 at Let's Cube Long Beach 2025.
- 26 Apr 2025First sub-30 3×3: 25.60 at Burbank Big Cubes 2025.
- 6 Apr 2025First competition: Agoura Side Events Day 2025. A 31.40 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- UCLA Spring 2026 · 15 Feb 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Agoura Winter 2026 · 24 Jan 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Super Duper San Diego 2026 · 9 Jan 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- UCSB Favorites 2025 · 1 Nov 2025
- Mission Viejo Fall 2025 · 12 Oct 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Berkeley Fall 2025 · 4 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2025 · 29 Aug 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025 · 24 Aug 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- UCLA Summer 2025 · 20 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- West Coast Cubing Tour: Los Angeles 2025 · 22 Jun 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Let's Cube Long Beach 2025 · 25 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Burbank Big Cubes 2025 · 26 Apr 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Agoura Side Events Day 2025 · 6 Apr 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.
- Emil Lazaryev — met in 45 rounds, never finished ahead
- Dominic Shoji — met in 43 rounds, finished ahead once
- Ellion Ornemark — met in 41 rounds, finished ahead 10 times
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,606 people have one; it is 0.83 away.
- A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 26,233 people have one; it is 0.58 away.
Targets move as he improves.