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Daiven Strom

3×3 · top 1.7% of 288,433 all-time · competing since August 2014 · 2014STRO03

Daiven Strom has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.28, set at Temecula Valley Back To School 2026, puts him in the top 1.7% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,032nd in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 28 competitions since August 2014, he has put 866 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 82% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.57 in August 2014 to 7.28, a 56% improvement. Daiven has entered 28 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.7% of 288,433 all-time
7.28
signature single · Temecula Valley Back To School 2026
866
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 82% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.289.25
top 1.7%1,032 / 60,666
Pyraminx3.236.01
top 4.4%1,184 / 29,168
2×22.104.10
top 5.5%2,215 / 41,674
4×434.8142.42
top 6.6%1,030 / 19,354
Megaminx59.371:06.80
top 9.7%689 / 8,026
3×3 one-handed16.7221.52
top 12.0%1,571 / 15,900
5×51:12.021:17.70
top 13.2%1,028 / 9,537
6×62:11.522:19.08
top 16.2%582 / 4,262
7×73:24.223:35.84
top 17.8%507 / 3,236
Clock12.5814.73
top 37.7%3,064 / 9,172
Skewb8.1110.62
top 42.2%7,465 / 19,164

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

Nisei Week 2014: 16.57UCSD Winter 2019: 11.86Santa Barbara Winter 2019: 11.75SacCubing VII 2019: 12.44CubingUSA Western Championship 2019: 11.10BeCubed Summer 2019: 10.05Bay Area Speedcubin' 19 2019: 10.92San Diego Summer 2019: 10.91Spokane Summer 2019: 10.41Santa Barbara Fall 2019: 13.12Mudd Fall 2019: 10.45Boise 2019: 9.76Bobcat Battle 2019: 10.41Grossmont Fall 2019: 10.31UCSD Winter 2020: 10.30Mudd Winter 2020: 10.13Cozy Cubing Poway 2023: 10.62Nub Open Trabuco Hills Fall 2025: 11.39Poly Cubed at Pomona 2025: 9.87Huntington Park Winter 2025: 10.46Temecula Valley Winter 2025: 10.70Super Duper San Diego 2026: 9.01Temecula Valley Spring 2026: 8.13UCSD TritoNxN 2026: 9.44Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2026: 8.26Temecula Valley Summer 2026: 9.33Temecula Valley Back To School 2026: 7.287.2816.579 Aug 201422 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-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.28 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,783 people have one; it is 0.23 away.

Targets move as he improves.