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Daniel Escobar

4×4 · top 1.5% of 85,040 all-time · competing since September 2014 · 2014ESCO02

Daniel Escobar has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 27.39, set at Caré Open 2025, puts him in the top 1.5% of the 85,040 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4th in Guatemala. Until April 2012, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 39 competitions since September 2014, he has put 2,681 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 93% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.16 in September 2014 to 7.18, a 63% improvement. Daniel has entered 39 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 1.5% of 85,040 all-time
27.39
signature single · Caré Open 2025
2,681
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 93% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingGuatemala
4×427.3933.97
top 1.5%4 / 310
3×37.189.16
top 1.6%9 / 1,255
5×559.741:04.35
top 5.5%6 / 153
Square-19.9813.23
top 6.0%1 / 91
Pyraminx3.806.53
top 6.7%27 / 481
3×3 one-handed14.8918.52
top 8.0%17 / 313
Skewb3.626.04
top 8.5%13 / 206
2×22.794.10
top 12.0%73 / 741
6×62:05.872:14.08
top 13.7%8 / 59
7×73:19.403:31.27
top 16.1%9 / 53
Megaminx1:23.031:33.65
top 23.8%48 / 138
3×3 Fewest Moves34 moves38.67
top 26.9%8 / 53
Clock10.9413.44
top 29.7%15 / 69
3×3 blindfolded3:29.254:21.77
top 60.8%29 / 48

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

IGA Rubik 2014: 19.16Rubik Huehue 2014: 16.36GuateMaya Open 2014: 15.70GuateRubik 2015: 14.20Xela Open 2015: 10.59Guatemala Cube Challenge 2015: 11.39Sivar Open 2015: 11.98Mazate Open 2016: 11.20Xela Open 2016: 10.79Villa Nueva Open 2017: 9.12Latin America Cubing Tour - Guatemala 2017: 9.75Rubik Xela Open 2017: 10.28Bekubes Costa Rica 2017: 10.95Guatemala Championship 2017: 9.69GuateMaya Open 2017: 9.43Santa Tecla Cubo Desafio 2018: 10.05Big Bang Open 2018: 9.74Nacionales Guatemala 2018: 9.21Ixchel 2018: 8.91Xela Open 2018: 9.12Luna de Xelajú 2018: 9.63GuateMaya Open 2018: 9.98Los Próceres 2019: 10.39Speedcubing Academy Xelajú 2019: 9.73Cubing Heredia 2019: 8.50Xela Open 2019: 8.94Nacionales Guatemala 2019: 9.54Cubing Party Xela 2022: 8.70Arkadia 2022: 8.40Eskala 2022: 9.52Vení a Cubear a Toto 2022: 9.31Nacionales Guatemala 2022: 9.20Cubing Party Xela 2023: 10.03Desafío Cubo CRAI UCA 2024: 8.76Caré Open 2025: 8.04Kukulcán Open Quetzaltenango 2026: 7.18Primma Cube Open 2026: 8.637.1819.167 Sep 20143 Oct 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-25 4×4 single — 614 people have one; it is 2.39 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.18 away.

Targets move as he improves.