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Dana Imambek

3×3 · top 5.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2023 · 2023IMAM02

Dana Imambek has been competing for 3 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.23, set at Saint John's Warm Up 2025, puts her in the top 5.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,030th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since July 2023, she has put 612 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 61% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 17.44 in July 2023 to 9.23, a 47% improvement. Dana has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.4% of 284,439 all-time
9.23
signature single · Saint John's Warm Up 2025
612
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 61% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.2312.01
top 5.4%3,030 / 59,724
2×22.302.89
top 7.0%2,793 / 40,951
Pyraminx3.976.55
top 7.5%1,914 / 28,708
Skewb4.637.77
top 15.4%2,420 / 18,907
Square-116.3922.63
top 19.6%1,316 / 6,743
3×3 one-handed20.4525.79
top 21.7%2,786 / 15,683
Clock10.6111.56
top 28.1%2,169 / 8,927
4×459.551:12.27
top 36.0%5,805 / 19,072
Megaminx2:34.55—
top 63.4%4,824 / 7,841
5×53:24.58—
early days — 2 solves7,885 / 9,401

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

Winchester Weeknights II 2023: 17.44Brookline Favorites 2023: 11.37CubingUSA New England Championship 2023: 11.37Loon Cubikon 2023: 16.05The Battle of Lexington 2024: 12.84Fall River Cubikon 2024: 12.55Cubing at the Y - Stoughton 2024: 11.17Saint John's Showdown 2024: 13.09A Morning in Cambridge 2024: 12.53Salem Cubikon 2024: 11.65Lexington Weeknights I 2024: 11.08Wakefield MA Summer 2024: 12.34Brookline Favorites 2024: 10.83Lexing-not-a-ton of NxNs 2024: 11.21Quick in Quincy 2024: 11.65Loon Cubikon 2024: 10.32The Battle of Lexington 2025: 9.87Fitchburg Fingertricks 2025: 11.05Saint John's Warm Up 2025: 9.23Brookline Favorites IV 2026: 12.459.2317.445 Jul 202329 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 her.

  • Ethan Zhuang — met in 118 rounds, never finished ahead
  • Ryan Durette — met in 100 rounds, finished ahead 11 times
  • Justin Lee — met in 94 rounds, finished ahead 24 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.23 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.30 away.

Targets move as she improves.