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Daniel Doherty

2×2 · top 1.4% of 186,767 all-time · competing since September 2016 · 2016DOHE01

Daniel Doherty has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.31, set at WPI Winter Cube Day 2017, puts him in the top 1.4% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 576th in the United States. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since September 2016, he has put 573 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one; 96% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.99 in September 2016 to 8.55, a 57% improvement. Daniel has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 1.4% of 186,767 all-time
1.31
signature single · WPI Winter Cube Day 2017
573
official solves on the record
17%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 96% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×21.312.97
top 1.4%576 / 40,951
3×38.5510.69
top 3.8%2,165 / 59,724
Pyraminx3.215.42
top 4.4%1,147 / 28,708
Megaminx57.451:00.27
top 8.6%593 / 7,841
Skewb3.926.64
top 10.3%1,587 / 18,907
Square-113.5924.03
top 13.2%909 / 6,743
4×443.2847.71
top 16.1%2,444 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed22.0530.27
top 26.2%3,379 / 15,683
5×51:29.681:38.99
top 27.0%2,113 / 9,401
6×63:32.18—
early days — 1 solve2,101 / 4,196
7×76:05.626:19.42
top 69.1%2,111 / 3,184
Clock27.59—
early days — 1 solve7,187 / 8,927

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

Quabbin Open 2016: 19.99Phillips Exeter Cube Day 2016: 18.54Monument Mountain Winter 2017: 17.65WPI Winter Cube Day 2017: 16.45Maybe Melrose Spring 2017: 15.34Quabbin Spring 2017: 12.38Lexington Summer 2017: 24.03Cubing with the Viking 2017: 14.22Framingham Frozen Fingers 2018: 14.28WPI Winter Cube Day 2018: 13.88Quizzical Quabbin Qualifier 2018: 12.62The Battle of Lexington 2018: 13.02Boston University Winter 2019: 14.32Salem Cube Trials 2019: 13.10Quabbin Summer 2019: 11.36Reno Summer 2023: 8.55Vegas Speedcubing Summer 2023: 9.31Silver City Side Events 2023: 9.10Vegas Cubing Fall 2023: 9.368.5524.0324 Sep 201628 Oct 2023

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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.31 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.55 away.

Targets move as he improves.