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Dan Tran

3×3 · top 0.17% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2015 · 2015TRAN07

Dan Tran has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.22, set at Vegas Cubing Cup Fall 2024, puts him in the top 0.17% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 118th in the United States. Until November 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 108 competitions since November 2015, he has put 5,479 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.60 in November 2015 to 5.22, a 46% improvement. Dan has entered 108 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.17% of 284,439 all-time
5.22
signature single · Vegas Cubing Cup Fall 2024
5,479
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×35.227.14
top 0.17%118 / 59,724
5×542.5250.01
top 0.37%28 / 9,401
4×423.2526.94
top 0.37%67 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed8.7111.67
top 0.4%58 / 15,683
2×21.101.84
top 0.77%317 / 40,951
6×61:24.181:32.47
top 1.0%41 / 4,196
Pyraminx2.294.20
top 1.7%442 / 28,708
7×72:15.752:28.30
top 1.8%46 / 3,184
Skewb2.364.51
top 2.4%354 / 18,907
Megaminx44.8250.65
top 3.0%215 / 7,841
Square-18.9811.24
top 4.5%333 / 6,743
3×3 Fewest Moves33 moves38.67
top 23.4%507 / 2,040
3×3 blindfolded2:00.92—
top 33.7%694 / 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

AZCubing Fall 2015: 9.60Nub Open 2016: 13.09AZCubing Winter 2016: 11.67Newport Spring 2016: 10.99AZCubing Spring 2016: 10.36SoCal Supercomp 2016: 10.39AZCubing Summer 2016: 9.47Newport Fall 2016: 11.69AZCubing Fall 2016: 9.24AZCubing Winter 2017: 8.46AZCubing Spring 2017: 8.45Cubing Comp at Hamilton 2017: 8.97AZCubing Summer 2017: 8.54AZCubing Hamilton Fall 2017: 8.73Cubic Meltdown 2017: 9.67AZCubing Hamilton Winter 2018: 8.89West Coast Cubing Tour - Fresno 2018: 6.79West Coast Cubing Tour - Cupertino 2018: 7.52AZCubing Summer 2018: 10.94AZCubing Spring 2019: 8.67CubingUSA Western Championship 2019: 8.57AZCubing Summer 2019: 7.80AZCubing Winter 2019: 7.10CalPoly SLO Fall 2021: 7.67CubingUSA Western Championship 2021: 8.93Cal Poly SLO Spring 2022: 7.53San Diego Spring 2022: 8.16Southern Utah Summer 2022: 7.89AZCubing Summer 2022: 7.60BeCubed Summer 2022: 8.26WCC Western Championship 2022: 6.80AZCubing Winter 2022: 7.00Cal Poly SLO Winter 2023: 7.72Arizona Speedcubing Spring 2023: 6.48A Bruin Cube Day Spring 2023: 7.44Bobcat Battle 2023: 5.84You Only Need a 3x3 AZ 2023: 6.99BeCubed Spring 2023: 6.96Never Stop Turning AZ 2023: 7.16SacCubing XIV 2023: 6.80Southern Utah Summer 2023: 7.74Cal Poly SLO Spring 2023: 7.27Vegas Speedcubing Summer 2023: 7.33Cubing in Glendale 2023: 6.95CubingUSA Western Championship 2023: 6.96Arizona Speedcubing Summer 2023: 6.89Agoura Cubing Again 2023: 7.90UCSD Summer 2023: 6.75Bring the Heat AZ 2023: 6.78Corona Summer 2023: 6.93Irvine Fall 2023: 6.98UCSD Extravaganza 2023: 6.56Jurupa Valley Cubing Fall 2023: 5.80Vegas Cubing Fall 2023: 6.99CubingUSA Rocky Mountain Championship 2023: 7.56Thankful for Cubing RPV 2023: 7.33Nub Open Mission Viejo 2023: 7.43Beckman Gets Big 2023: 6.60UCSD Winter 2023: 7.23UCSD Winter 2024: 7.01University Heights Cubing Winter 2024: 7.14Vegas Cubing Cup Winter 2024: 7.02Triton Tricubealon 2024: 6.48Orange County Newcomers 2024: 5.67Los Angeles Newcomers 2024: 5.79Nub Open Yucaipa 2024: 6.78Arizona Championship 2024: 6.32Vegas Cubing Cup Spring 2024: 6.53Bring the Heat AZ 2024: 6.88CubingUSA Rocky Mountain Championship 2024: 6.99Nub Open Mission Viejo Summer 2024: 7.49CubingUSA Western Championship 2024: 7.29Vegas Cubing Cup Summer 2024: 7.55Aliso Niguel Summer 2024: 5.91Arizona Autumn 2024: 6.20Temecula Valley Fall 2024: 6.67Vegas Cubing Cup Fall 2024: 5.22UCSD Fall 2024: 6.71CubeChella 2024: 6.79Prescott Winter 2025: 6.26Vegas Cubing Cup Winter 2025: 7.31Lopes Up AZ 2025: 6.74Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2025: 5.78UCLA Spring 2025: 6.48Cubing at the Peak AZ 2025: 7.30Vegas Cubing Cup Spring 2025: 7.14Arizona Championship 2025: 7.22Nub Open Mission Viejo Spring 2025: 7.15West Coast Cubing Tour: Los Angeles 2025: 6.49Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.84Square-1 Showdown AZ 2025: 8.64Bring the Heat AZ 2025: 7.26Vegas Cubing Cup Summer 2025: 7.00UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025: 6.03Bear Down AZ 2025: 7.30Mission Viejo Fall 2025: 7.41Rocky Mountain Championship 2025: 6.93Arizona Favorites 2025: 6.74Temecula Valley Winter 2025: 7.10Arizona Championship 2026: 6.94Lopes Up AZ 2026: 6.57Cube Against Cancer Arizona 2026: 7.02Megaminx Madness AZ 2026: 7.24Prescott Spring 2026: 6.89West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2026: 7.32Agoura Summer 2026: 6.765.2213.097 Nov 201520 Jun 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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.22 away.
  • A sub-40 5×5 single — 68 people have one; it is 2.52 away.

Targets move as he improves.