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Daniel Goldstein

2×2 · top 12.0% of 186,767 all-time · competing since April 2017 · 2017GOLD01

Daniel Goldstein has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.80, set at Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024, puts him in the top 12.0% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,737th in the United States. Across 82 competitions since April 2017, he has put 1,712 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 92% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 30.89 in April 2017 to 11.69, a 62% improvement. Daniel has entered 82 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 12.0% of 186,767 all-time
2.80
signature single · Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024
1,712
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 92% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×22.804.85
top 12.0%4,737 / 40,951
Pyraminx4.846.40
top 12.2%3,179 / 28,708
3×311.6913.81
top 12.8%6,870 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed21.9529.00
top 25.9%3,344 / 15,683
4×451.891:03.55
top 27.0%4,165 / 19,072
Skewb6.5810.83
top 30.3%4,998 / 18,907
3×3 blindfolded2:06.98—
top 35.7%744 / 2,092
Clock13.4016.15
top 41.3%3,300 / 8,927
Square-131.8339.32
top 52.9%3,473 / 6,743
5×52:12.58—
top 56.9%4,833 / 9,401

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

Maybe Melrose Spring 2017: 30.89Quabbin Spring 2017: 23.29Hudson Valley Spring 2017: 26.42Sharon Summer 2017: 24.64Princeton Fall 2017: 19.32WPI Fall Cube Fest 2017: 21.51UPenn Cube Day Fall 2017: 21.49Hudson Valley Fall 2017: 22.11Weston Fall 2017: 17.82Cubing with the Viking 2017: 25.46Liberty Science Center Open 2017: 21.60New York City Winter 2018: 21.08Penn Cube Day Winter 2018: 23.60Incredible Pencil Mania 2018: 22.10Hudson Valley Open 2018: 25.82Rutgers Spring 2018: 23.45New York City Spring 2018: 23.84Lower Moreland Spring 2018: 15.70CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018: 20.65Brooklyn 2018: 20.63CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 21.91Pennsylvania 2018: 19.72Quinnipiac 2018: 23.38Kew Forest Open 2018: 22.97New York City Fall 2018: 22.80CubingUSA New Jersey Championship 2018: 19.41Liberty Science Center Open 2018: 21.26Hudson Valley Winter 2019: 18.15Princeton Winter 2019: 23.89CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 21.12Long Island Winter 2019: 19.08SBU Spring 2019: 16.31Brooklyn 2019: 15.79Hudson Valley Summer 2019: 16.50CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 14.08Ridge Cubing Fall 2019: 17.66Brooklyn Fall 2019: 16.27SBU Fall 2019: 16.36Liberty Science Center Open 2019: 16.72Scranton Scramble 2020: 14.88Princeton Winter 2020: 17.08Constitution State Winter 2020: 15.00Babylon Winter 2020: 13.52Empire State Summer B 2021: 14.35Babylon Fall 2021: 16.75Empire State Winter A 2022: 16.03Deerfield Winter 2022: 15.57Moose On The Loose Cubikon 2022: 13.98CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022: 12.87Pennsylvania Championship 2022: 13.78New York Championship 2022: 14.02New York Yopen 2022: 14.53Mum's the Word 2023: 14.54Pretzel Mania 2023: 12.83PBs in Palisades 2023: 14.38North Jersey Speedsolving B 2023: 13.96CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023: 14.15Jay House of Cubes 2023: 14.52CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 12.68Princeton Fall 2023: 15.11Cubes on the Bayside Winter 2024: 13.88Ridgefield Spring 2024: 14.74Great Peconic Bay Spring 2024: 12.49Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 14.56New York Championship 2024: 13.59Lake George 2024: 13.46New New York New Year 2024: 14.74Empire State Winter 2025: 11.89American Dream NJ 2025: 12.26Saratoga Spring-s 2025: 11.69Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 13.58Saratoga Springs Summer 2025: 14.05Brookhaven Summer 2025: 12.90New York New Year 2025: 12.44Mohawk Valley Winter 2026: 12.60Great Peconic Bay 2026: 12.5611.6930.8929 Apr 201717 May 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.

  • Evan Liu — met in 194 rounds, finished ahead once
  • Luke Galioto — met in 167 rounds, finished ahead 32 times
  • Lauren Phung — met in 167 rounds, finished ahead 4 times

Next targets

  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.80 away.
  • A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.84 away.

Targets move as he improves.