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Daniel Hong

Megaminx · top 2.0% of 34,786 all-time · competing since July 2022 · 2022HONG09

Daniel Hong has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Megaminx: a personal-best single of 41.43, set at Christmas City Cubing PA 2025, puts him in the top 2.0% of the 34,786 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 142nd in the United States. Until August 2014, no official Megaminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 37 competitions since July 2022, he has put 1,389 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 81% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.09 in July 2022 to 7.80, a 61% improvement. Daniel has entered 37 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Megaminx
best event — top 2.0% of 34,786 all-time
41.43
signature single · Christmas City Cubing PA 2025
1,389
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 81% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Megaminx41.4347.42
top 2.0%142 / 7,841
3×37.809.58
top 2.4%1,429 / 59,724
2×21.743.28
top 3.3%1,274 / 40,951
Skewb3.185.71
top 5.9%910 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed14.5619.53
top 7.2%968 / 15,683
Pyraminx4.136.68
top 8.3%2,130 / 28,708
4×438.5242.60
top 10.4%1,539 / 19,072
5×51:13.611:28.26
top 14.2%1,095 / 9,401
Square-115.3819.47
top 17.3%1,172 / 6,743
Clock9.6410.20
top 23.3%1,795 / 8,927
6×63:06.033:16.29
top 43.9%1,623 / 4,196
7×76:08.836:31.35
top 69.8%2,134 / 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

East Brunswick Open 2022: 20.09Babylon Summer 2022: 12.80New York Yopen 2022: 12.35West Chester Fall 2022: 10.84NJIT Spring 2023: 12.71South Jersey Speedsolving 2023: 13.52GCU Spring 2023: 12.52North Jersey Speedsolving B 2023: 11.99CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023: 11.71CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 10.55Newark's On Track 2023: 10.52Pretzel Mania Summer 2023: 9.32CubingUSA New England Championship 2023: 9.37Princeton Fall 2023: 10.97Manhattan Mini B 2023: 9.37GCU Winter 2024: 11.04Parsippany Mini PM 2024: 7.95Cubing in Mount Kisco 2024: 8.04Cubes on the Bayside Spring 2024: 9.56Ridgefield Spring 2024: 8.81It's About Time Bloomsburg 2024: 10.00Spring into Summit 2024: 9.93New Jersey Championship 2024: 10.04Cubing in the Ocean County 2024: 10.10Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 9.20Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 8.51Hudson Valley Summer 2024: 8.30Long Island Winter Solstice 2024: 7.80Pop Off Princeton 2025: 9.08PBs in Palisades Spring 2025: 9.48Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 9.56Brookhaven Summer 2025: 8.10CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 8.57Christmas City Cubing PA 2025: 9.087.8020.0930 Jul 20224 Oct 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.

  • Nico Ozsvath — met in 243 rounds, finished ahead 85 times
  • Evan Liu — met in 236 rounds, finished ahead 19 times
  • Ayden Dincher — met in 236 rounds, finished ahead 4 times

Next targets

  • A sub-40 Megaminx single — 557 people have one; it is 1.43 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.80 away.

Targets move as he improves.