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Daniel Cheng

3×3 one-handed · top 2.0% of 73,695 all-time · competing since April 2023 · 2023CHEN48

Daniel Cheng has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 11.17, set at Penn Cube Day Spring 2026, puts him in the top 2.0% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 317th in the United States. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 38 competitions since April 2023, he has put 1,064 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 79% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.13 in April 2023 to 8.98, an 11% improvement. Daniel has entered 38 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 2.0% of 73,695 all-time
11.17
signature single · Penn Cube Day Spring 2026
1,064
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 79% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 one-handed11.1712.37
top 2.0%317 / 15,683
3×38.9811.46
top 4.8%2,690 / 59,724
Megaminx55.301:04.72
top 7.6%524 / 7,841
2×23.114.31
top 15.5%6,071 / 40,951
Clock8.5210.57
top 17.6%1,343 / 8,927
4×445.0154.67
top 18.3%2,785 / 19,072
3×3 Fewest Moves33 moves36.67
top 23.4%507 / 2,040
5×51:25.251:32.79
top 23.5%1,817 / 9,401
Skewb6.898.25
top 32.8%5,492 / 18,907
Square-123.4728.48
top 35.8%2,322 / 6,743
7×74:41.615:18.40
top 45.0%1,306 / 3,184
Pyraminx10.3115.19
top 55.4%16,203 / 28,708
6×63:57.88—
early days — 3 solves2,503 / 4,196

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

CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2023: 10.13Westminster Squanners Spring 2023: 12.49CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023: 11.39Pickett's Mill Battlefield 2023: 11.57Going Fast in Franklin 2023: 11.82T-Town Showdown 2023: 10.60Cuber Jackets Fall 2023: 10.67Algorithms on Abercorn 2023: 12.23Choo Choo Cubing B 2024: 10.47Vanderbilt Spring 2024: 11.40Clayton State Cubing 2024: 11.28Alabama Championship 2024: 13.08Washtenaw Qualifiers 2024: 12.44Bama Big Cubes 2024: 10.56CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2024: 10.74T-Town Showdown AL 2024: 11.36Penn Cube Day Fall 2024: 13.15PBs in Palisades Open 2025: 12.02Liberty Science Center Open A 2025: 10.41NYU Spring 2025: 10.04CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2025: 10.97Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 10.41Cubing in Terredise 2025: 10.21Liberty Science Center Fall A 2025: 12.03Brooklyn Waldorf Winter 2025: 11.58Georgia Championship 2026: 9.97PBs in Palisades Open 2026: 11.72Liberty Science Center Open B 2026: 8.98Penn Cube Day Spring 2026: 11.13No Clocks in Greenpoint 2026: 10.72Mid-Atlantic Warm-Up 2026: 10.098.9813.1515 Apr 20239 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-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 1.17 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.98 away.

Targets move as he improves.