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Daniel I. Rice

3×3 · top 3.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2022 · 2022RICE04

Daniel I. Rice has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.53, set at Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024, puts him in the top 3.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,134th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since September 2022, he has put 815 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.12 in September 2022 to 8.53, a 23% improvement. Daniel has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.8% of 284,439 all-time
8.53
signature single · Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024
815
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.539.99
top 3.8%2,134 / 59,724
4×432.4541.54
top 4.5%722 / 19,072
Pyraminx3.886.11
top 7.1%1,803 / 28,708
Megaminx58.641:06.97
top 9.3%644 / 7,841
2×22.734.15
top 11.3%4,435 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed16.5824.25
top 11.6%1,513 / 15,683
5×51:15.681:22.66
top 15.9%1,229 / 9,401
Skewb5.068.23
top 18.6%2,963 / 18,907
Square-117.6520.55
top 22.5%1,489 / 6,743
6×62:28.432:35.81
top 24.8%888 / 4,196
7×74:01.064:16.73
top 31.1%865 / 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

Pretzel Mania 2022: 11.12Rocky Top 2022: 11.23Pretzel Mania 2023: 10.52Richmond Spring 2023: 11.47Michigan 2023: 10.74Stevenage July 2023: 9.53Pretzel Mania Summer 2023: 10.04CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2023: 10.73Virginia Championship 2023: 9.79Empire State NxN 2024: 9.28Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 8.53CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2024: 8.67Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2024: 9.07Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 8.93Virginia Championship 2025: 9.038.5311.473 Sep 202216 Aug 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 0.53 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 2.45 away.

Targets move as he improves.