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Lucian Yantes

3×3 · top 2.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2024 · 2024YANT01

Lucian Yantes has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.52, set at Moorhead Madness 2025, puts him in the top 2.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,190th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since January 2024, he has put 386 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 72% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 2×2 best has come down from 5.10 in January 2024 to 1.87, a 63% improvement. Lucian has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.0% of 284,439 all-time
7.52
signature single · Moorhead Madness 2025
386
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 72% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.5210.53
top 2.0%1,190 / 59,724
Clock4.705.45
top 3.7%304 / 8,927
2×21.872.64
top 4.0%1,565 / 40,951
Skewb4.127.73
top 11.7%1,819 / 18,907
4×443.6545.56
top 16.6%2,515 / 19,072
Pyraminx5.557.65
top 16.8%4,443 / 28,708
Megaminx1:19.181:26.52
top 21.2%1,466 / 7,841
3×3 blindfolded1:28.21—
top 22.4%455 / 2,092
5×51:28.151:37.84
top 25.8%2,014 / 9,401
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves43.67
top 30.0%652 / 2,040
Square-120.9826.89
top 30.2%1,950 / 6,743
3×3 one-handed24.4027.11
top 32.6%4,259 / 15,683
6×63:12.013:17.86
top 46.8%1,746 / 4,196
3×3 Multi-Blind6 of 8 cubes · 55:26—
early days — 2 solves364 / 731
7×77:53.88—
early days — 1 solve2,818 / 3,184
4×4 blindfolded20:54.00—
early days — 1 solve394 / 440

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

North Star Cubing Challenge 2024: 5.10Minnesota Newcomer Saturday 2024: 3.61Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 2.57Cubetcha MN 2024: 2.58North Star Cubing Challenge MN 2025: 2.17Moorhead Madness 2025: 1.871.875.1020 Jan 202410 May 2025

Best single per competition, 2×2. 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.

  • Walker Welch — met in 73 rounds, finished ahead 10 times
  • Nathan Rahn — met in 68 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
  • Kaius Young — met in 62 rounds, finished ahead 8 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.52 away.
  • A sub-4 Clock single — 741 people have one; it is 0.70 away.

Targets move as he improves.