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Daniel Estrada Hernandez

3×3 · top 3.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2022 · 2022HERN07

Daniel Estrada Hernandez has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.59, set at Miami Spring 2024, puts him in the top 3.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,224th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 31 competitions since April 2022, he has put 972 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one; 97% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.41 in April 2022 to 8.59, a 25% improvement. Daniel has entered 31 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.9% of 284,439 all-time
8.59
signature single · Miami Spring 2024
972
official solves on the record
17%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 97% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.5910.69
top 3.9%2,224 / 59,724
2×22.063.80
top 5.2%2,056 / 40,951
Skewb3.205.88
top 6.0%934 / 18,907
Pyraminx3.645.65
top 6.0%1,548 / 28,708
4×435.0841.27
top 6.8%1,051 / 19,072
Square-111.3716.95
top 8.6%620 / 6,743
Clock7.829.20
top 14.3%1,095 / 8,927
5×51:25.941:32.64
top 24.1%1,866 / 9,401
3×3 one-handed22.0827.01
top 26.3%3,394 / 15,683
Megaminx1:53.552:12.84
top 42.4%3,078 / 7,841
6×64:28.80—
early days — 2 solves2,937 / 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

Cobb Library Cubing B 2022: 11.41GA Cubers Pride 2022: 12.45CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2022: 9.20Let's Even the Odds Alabama 2022: 12.31Sharon Forks Showdown 2022: 11.65T-Town Showdown 2022: 9.11Cuber Jackets Fall 2022: 10.53GA Cubers Mashed Potatoes 2022: 10.54Music City Speedsolving 2023: 10.90Cubing in the Clouds 2023: 10.99Kendeda Kubing B 2023: 10.49Simpson Scramble 2023: 9.42AlphaCubing A 2023: 8.81Westminster Squanners Spring 2023: 10.09CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 11.76Staunton Speedsolving 2023: 9.81Beat the Clock Westminster 2024: 9.34Miami Spring 2024: 8.59Alabama Championship 2024: 11.33See Georgia: Lake Russell A 2024: 9.60GA Cuber Jackets Fall 2024: 8.62GA Cuber Jackets Spring 2025: 8.99Skewbing in School Kennesaw 2025: 9.62Cubing in School Westminster 2025: 9.558.5912.4523 Apr 202210 May 2025

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.59 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.06 away.

Targets move as he improves.