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Robert Alan Marks

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 8.0% of 12,294 all-time · competing since January 2024 · 2024MARK03

Robert Alan Marks has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 27 moves, set at FMC under the Mistletoe 2025, puts him in the top 8.0% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 187th in the United States. Across 65 competitions since January 2024, he has put 424 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 67% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 41.32 in January 2024 to 26.59, a 36% improvement. Robert has entered 65 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 8.0% of 12,294 all-time
27 moves
signature single · FMC under the Mistletoe 2025
424
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 67% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 Fewest Moves27 moves31.33
top 8.0%187 / 2,040
3×326.5930.55
top 56.0%33,044 / 59,724
5×52:33.442:54.86
top 67.4%5,889 / 9,401
7×76:28.386:52.58
top 74.0%2,299 / 3,184
4×41:46.652:07.70
top 74.8%13,614 / 19,072
6×64:36.494:59.44
top 76.3%3,031 / 4,196
Square-11:36.91—
top 96.4%6,550 / 6,743

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

Bay Area Speedcubin' 55 - San Ramon 2024: 41.32Bay Area Speedcubin' 60 - Mountain View 2024: 45.13Bay Area Speedcubin' 61 - San Jose 2024: 45.20Berkeley Summer 2024: 38.36Folsom Summer 2024: 47.61Davis Summer 2024: 38.28La La Land 2024: 46.46SacCubing XVIII 2024: 39.27Redding Fall 2024: 41.07Bay Area Speedcubin' 65 - Berkeley 2024: 37.93Berkeley Fall 2024: 39.43Davis Fall 2024: 41.84Cool Down Berkeley 2024: 37.66Reno Fall 2024: 37.07Rocklin Winter 2024: 38.96Santa Barbara Winter 2025: 32.56Bay Area Speedcubin' 67 - San Ramon 2025: 34.92Bay Area Side Events Day 2025: 37.26Berkeley Spring 2025: 35.36Yuba City Spring 2025: 35.43Santa Rosa Spring 2025: 26.59Davis Spring 2025: 34.26Rock-Cube-Lin Qualifier 2025: 33.38SCU I: May the Fourth Be With You 2025: 36.78Hawaiian Island Tour - Kona 2025: 36.20Hawaiian Island Tour - Waimea 2025: 38.69Hawaiian Island Tour - Hilo 2025: 40.62Hawaiian Island Tour - Kāhala Open 2025: 36.50Hawaiian Island Tour - Honolulu 2025: 31.02UCLA Summer 2025: 36.53Reno Summer 2025: 37.87West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2025: 32.75Berkeley Fall 2025: 37.54Cool Down Berkeley 2025: 36.99West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2026: 34.15Alameda County Fair 2026: 35.39Mountain House Open 2026: 34.42Temecula Valley Summer 2026: 31.99Davis Big Summer 2026: 36.95Bay Area Speedcubin' 69 2026: 26.9626.5947.6114 Jan 202429 Aug 2026

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-25 3×3 single — 149,621 people have one; it is 1.59 away.
  • A sub-2:00 5×5 single — 20,087 people have one; it is 33.44 away.

Targets move as he improves.