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Daniel Gilbert

3×3 · top 3.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2023 · 2023GILB09

Daniel Gilbert has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.16, set at Vanderbilt Winter 2025, puts him in the top 3.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,743rd in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since November 2023, he has put 475 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 70% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.39 in November 2023 to 8.16, a 47% improvement. Daniel has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.1% of 284,439 all-time
8.16
signature single · Vanderbilt Winter 2025
475
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 70% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.1610.52
top 3.1%1,743 / 59,724
2×21.982.96
top 4.6%1,844 / 40,951
Skewb3.267.14
top 6.4%985 / 18,907
Pyraminx4.225.53
top 8.8%2,260 / 28,708
4×438.4846.07
top 10.3%1,531 / 19,072
Clock8.3710.44
top 16.9%1,290 / 8,927
5×51:17.161:34.70
top 17.0%1,313 / 9,401
3×3 one-handed21.7725.41
top 25.4%3,270 / 15,683
6×63:15.293:20.19
top 48.2%1,802 / 4,196
Megaminx2:17.16—
early days — 2 solves4,118 / 7,841
Square-133.2136.68
top 55.5%3,666 / 6,743

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

Get Ahead in Andalusia 2023: 15.39TN Speedsolving Winter 2024: 14.05Alabama Championship 2024: 12.69T-Town Showdown AL 2024: 10.25Solving at Sycamore TN 2024: 10.64Corinth Comic Con Cubing 2024: 10.01Coosa Cubing Clash 2024: 12.48Vanderbilt Winter 2025: 8.16Cubing on the Plains at Auburn 2025: 9.81Alabama Crimson Cubing Spring 2025: 9.98CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2025: 9.14Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 9.92Alabama Crimson Cubing Fall 2025: 8.47Coosa Cubing Clash 2025: 9.00Fort Payne Summer 2026: 9.048.1615.3911 Nov 202322 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.

  • Katie Hull — met in 95 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
  • Roman Wofford — met in 90 rounds, finished ahead 22 times
  • MJ Thomas — met in 73 rounds, finished ahead 16 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.16 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.98 away.

Targets move as he improves.