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Daniel Gutierrez

3×3 · top 0.12% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2016 · 2016GUTI23

Daniel Gutierrez has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 4.99, set at CubingUSA New England Championship 2023, puts him in the top 0.12% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 83rd in the United States. Until November 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 80 competitions since December 2016, he has put 3,853 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.16 in December 2016 to 4.99, a 55% improvement. Daniel has entered 80 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.12% of 284,439 all-time
4.99
signature single · CubingUSA New England Championship 2023
3,853
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 73% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×34.996.59
top 0.12%83 / 59,724
2×20.932.01
top 0.43%182 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed8.9611.38
top 0.49%76 / 15,683
4×424.1430.75
top 0.52%92 / 19,072
Pyraminx1.973.15
top 1.1%305 / 28,708
5×550.171:00.64
top 1.8%148 / 9,401
Megaminx41.5545.63
top 2.0%143 / 7,841
Skewb2.394.80
top 2.5%369 / 18,907
Square-19.7216.94
top 5.6%411 / 6,743
6×61:55.132:15.61
top 9.1%321 / 4,196
Clock6.677.74
top 9.8%756 / 8,927
3×3 Fewest Moves29 moves35.33
top 12.2%280 / 2,040
7×73:43.573:56.72
top 24.7%697 / 3,184

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

UMass ODS Fall 2016: 11.16Monument Mountain Winter 2017: 9.82WPI Winter Cube Day 2017: 10.53New York City Winter 2017: 11.03Maybe Melrose Spring 2017: 8.56Big Cube Bash 2017: 9.63Quabbin Spring 2017: 8.79Hudson Valley Spring 2017: 9.54Lexington Summer 2017: 8.80WPI Fall Cube Fest 2017: 9.12Hudson Valley Fall 2017: 8.33Weston Fall 2017: 8.61Cubing with the Viking 2017: 8.09Liberty Science Center Open 2017: 6.92Framingham Frozen Fingers 2018: 8.27New York City Winter 2018: 7.83WPI Winter Cube Day 2018: 6.76Hudson Valley Open 2018: 7.59New York City Spring 2018: 6.74BU Spring 2018: 7.65CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018: 7.37Brooklyn 2018: 7.14CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 6.58Quinnipiac 2018: 7.21New York City Fall 2018: 6.68The Battle of Lexington 2018: 7.99Liberty Science Center Open 2018: 6.76Hudson Valley Winter 2019: 6.74Boston University Winter 2019: 5.84Salem Cube Trials 2019: 6.68SBU Spring 2019: 5.50Empire State Spring 2019: 6.51STMHS Spring 2019: 6.52Cubing in Cambridge 2019: 7.43Massachusetts Championship 2019: 6.68CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 7.51Quabbin Summer 2019: 6.53Brooklyn Fall 2019: 6.96SBU Fall 2019: 6.23MIT Winter 2020: 6.58Constitution State Winter 2020: 6.81Empire State Summer B 2021: 6.01Empire State Winter B 2022: 5.76CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022: 6.45Granite State 2022: 6.36East Brunswick Open 2022: 5.48Westport Summer 2022: 6.09Naticube 2022: 6.23Cubing in Cambridge 2022: 6.57Mum's the Word 2023: 5.02Pioneer Valley Cubing B 2023: 5.96Fall River Cubikon 2023: 6.61Northampton Winter B 2023: 5.94Saint John's Scramble 2023: 5.74Return to Quabbin 2023: 5.89Westport Warmup 2023: 5.91CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 6.24CubingUSA New England Championship 2023: 4.99Winchester Wind Down 2023: 5.96Cubes on the Bayside Spring 2024: 6.14South Deerfield Clock Fest 2024: 5.43New Hampshire Summer 2024: 6.07Unicentro Pereira II 2024: 6.14Vacaciones Cuenca Open 2024: 5.75Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 6.39CubingUSA New England Championship 2024: 5.84Springfield Cube Day 2024: 6.15A Sunday in Ashfield 2024: 7.09Cubing at the Course CT 2025: 6.22Cubing at Hampton Beach 2025: 5.08Connecticut Championship 2025: 5.80CubingUSA New England Championship 2025: 6.26Rubik's x TheCubicle CubingUSA All-Stars 2025: 7.23Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 5.594.9911.1610 Dec 20162 Jul 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-4 3×3 single — 38 people have one; it is 0.99 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 0.96 away.

Targets move as he improves.