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Daniel Chiu

4×4 · top 0.34% of 83,917 all-time · competing since August 2022 · 2022CHIU06

Daniel Chiu has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 23.13, set at Weston-super-Mare Spring 2025, puts him in the top 0.34% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5th in Hong Kong, China. Until August 2014, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 44 competitions since August 2022, he has put 2,393 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.36 in August 2022 to 6.84, a 40% improvement. Daniel has entered 44 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 0.34% of 83,917 all-time
23.13
signature single · Weston-super-Mare Spring 2025
2,393
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingHong Kong, China
4×423.1326.52
top 0.34%5 / 423
5×546.2853.27
top 0.88%5 / 192
3×36.848.42
top 1.2%25 / 1,347
2×21.291.92
top 1.3%21 / 855
3×3 one-handed10.9613.65
top 1.8%14 / 361
Megaminx41.4448.19
top 2.0%7 / 154
3×3 Fewest Moves23 moves28.00
top 3.0%9 / 76
Skewb3.275.31
top 6.4%27 / 285
Pyraminx4.126.47
top 8.3%58 / 431
Square-111.3613.92
top 8.6%27 / 126
6×61:53.811:58.46
top 8.6%23 / 87

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

August Bank Holiday Cheltenham 2022: 11.36Chippenham Autumn 2022: 10.52Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 10.41Wiltshire Winter 2023: 9.66Bolton Spring 2023: 8.57Wiltshire Spring 2023: 7.83Reading Spring 2023: 8.81Weston-super-Mare Spring 2023: 9.27Wiltshire Summer 2023: 8.33Bristol Summer 2023: 8.75Bolton Summer 2023: 6.90North Wales Summer 2023: 9.11August Bank Holiday Cheltenham 2023: 8.56Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 8.44Wiltshire December 2023: 7.80Bristol Winter 2024: 6.84Wiltshire March 2024: 7.48Manchester Spring 2024: 7.94Bolton Summer 2024: 8.28Bristol Summer 2024: 8.32Birmingham Summer 2024: 8.09Kewbz UK Open 2024: 8.00Wiltshire September 2024: 8.13Rubik's UK Championship 2024: 7.27Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2024: 7.38Wiltshire November 2024: 7.65Bristol Winter Open 2024: 7.45Crewe Winter 2025: 7.57Wiltshire Spring 2025: 8.34Birmingham Spring 2025: 7.72Manchester Spring 2025: 7.35Weston-super-Mare Spring 2025: 7.73Bristol June 2025: 7.08Wiltshire Summer 2025: 8.28Rubik's UK Championship 2025: 7.39Bristol August 2025: 7.28Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2025: 6.89Wiltshire Winter 2025: 7.77Wiltshire Summer 2026: 7.57Bristol August 2026: 7.09Kewbz UK Championship 2026: 8.436.8411.3627 Aug 202228 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-20 4×4 single — 42 people have one; it is 3.13 away.
  • A sub-40 5×5 single — 68 people have one; it is 6.28 away.

Targets move as he improves.