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Dan Selzer

3×3 · top 2.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2011 · 2011SELZ01

Dan Selzer has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.97, set at Big Apple Cube Clash 2016, puts him in the top 2.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,573rd in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 94 competitions since March 2011, he has put 3,816 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 52% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.88 in March 2011 to 7.97, a 58% improvement. Dan has entered 94 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.7% of 284,439 all-time
7.97
signature single · Big Apple Cube Clash 2016
3,816
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 52% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.979.73
top 2.7%1,573 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed13.3017.97
top 4.9%692 / 15,683
4×433.8637.35
top 5.7%878 / 19,072
2×22.414.13
top 8.0%3,178 / 40,951
3×3 Fewest Moves29 moves40.00
top 12.2%280 / 2,040
Pyraminx5.027.63
top 13.3%3,462 / 28,708
Square-115.2822.18
top 17.0%1,152 / 6,743
5×51:17.831:27.77
top 17.4%1,355 / 9,401
Skewb6.4713.33
top 29.5%4,838 / 18,907
Megaminx1:35.661:56.51
top 31.8%2,253 / 7,841
Clock12.5315.78
top 37.5%2,980 / 8,927
6×63:20.913:42.91
top 51.0%1,915 / 4,196
7×76:02.106:16.39
top 68.2%2,074 / 3,184
3×3 blindfolded4:28.72—
top 74.3%1,541 / 2,092

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

Newark Head to Head 2011: 18.88Park Ridge Open 2011: 16.33Yale Fall 2011: 14.30Princeton Fall 2011: 13.46Liberty Science Center Open 2011: 12.25Bridgewater Open 2011: 12.43MIT Spring 2012: 10.06Newark Head to Head 2012: 13.15Carnegie Mellon Spring 2012: 10.69Yale Spring 2012: 10.34Brown Cubing Day 2012: 10.59Captain's Cove competition 2012: 10.43St. Joseph's College Summer 2012: 9.96Yale Fall 2012: 10.53Princeton Fall 2012: 9.68Chesapeake Science Point Fall 2012: 10.33Levittown Open 2012: 10.72Liberty Science Center Open 2012: 10.59Monmouth County Open 2013: 10.13Harvard Spring 2013: 10.05River Hill Winter 2013: 10.55MIT Spring 2013: 9.81Princeton Spring 2013: 11.02Chesapeake Science Point Spring 2013: 9.41Yale Spring 2013: 9.86Carnegie Mellon Spring 2013: 9.93Newark Head to Head 2013: 9.97Dixon Summer 2013: 9.91Tree Town 2013: 9.34World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 10.24CCFC Fall 2013: 9.52Chesapeake Science Point Fall 2013: 10.25Yale Fall 2013: 9.37Slow 'n Steady Fall 2013: 10.25Starlight Open 2013: 9.73CCFC Winter 2014: 11.21Princeton Winter 2014: 10.14Williams Winter 2014: 10.53Yale Spring 2014: 9.94Michigan 2014: 9.19Dixon Summer 2014: 9.64US Nationals 2014: 8.43Starlight Open 2014: 9.76River Hill Summer 2014: 8.88Slow n Steady Fall 2014: 10.01Red Cross Cubing Open 2014: 9.15Michigan Cubing Club Alpha 2015: 10.76River Hill Winter 2015: 9.58Johns Hopkins Winter 2015: 9.08Yale Spring 2015: 10.28Doylestown Spring 2015: 8.86Chesapeake Science Point Spring 2015: 9.24Slow n Steady Spring 2015: 11.15Slow n Steady Fall 2015: 10.38ODU Big Blue Open 2015: 9.18Virginia Open Fall 2015: 8.62River Hill Fall 2015: 8.67Liberty Science 2015: 8.76Red Cross Cubing Open 2016: 9.79Slow N Steady Winter 2016: 8.25Princeton Winter 2016: 10.16Big Apple Cube Clash 2016: 7.97Virginia Open Spring 2016: 9.15Manhasset Spring 2016: 9.04ODU Big Blue Spring 2016: 8.98Severna Park Spring 2016: 9.12Big Apple Spring 2016: 8.48Cube For A Cure Spring 2016: 8.62Cube4Cam 2016: 9.44Slow N Steady Spring 2016: 8.50US Nationals 2016: 9.78Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2016: 8.78Sharon Summer 2016: 8.77New York City Summer 2016: 8.67Slow N Steady Fall 2016: 8.62Princeton Fall 2016: 8.99Severna Park Fall 2016: 8.23ODU Big Blue Winter 2016: 9.10Slow N Steady Spring 2017: 9.56EZ Cubes Spring 2017: 9.18Slow N Steady Summer 2017: 8.71CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 9.05Maryland 2017: 9.87Incredible Pencil Mania 2018: 9.28Slow N Steady Winter 2018: 9.28Maryland 2018: 10.10CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 11.28Slow N Steady Summer 2018: 10.19CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 10.15CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 9.687.9718.8819 Mar 20111 Aug 2019

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 — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.97 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 1.30 away.

Targets move as he improves.