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Daniel Jalkut

2×2 · top 28.3% of 186,767 all-time · competing since June 2023 · 2023JALK02

Daniel Jalkut has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 4.14, set at Brookline Favorites III 2025, puts him in the top 28.3% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 11,184th in the United States. Across 36 competitions since June 2023, he has put 444 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 21% around a typical one; 99% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:04.24 in June 2023 to 21.96, a 66% improvement. Daniel has entered 36 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 28.3% of 186,767 all-time
4.14
signature single · Brookline Favorites III 2025
444
official solves on the record
21%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 99% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×24.148.70
top 28.3%11,184 / 40,951
3×321.9626.89
top 45.3%26,129 / 59,724
Pyraminx10.1015.51
top 53.8%15,698 / 28,708
4×41:42.14—
top 72.0%12,988 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed1:09.06—
top 88.6%13,495 / 15,683

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

Winchester Weeknights I 2023: 1:04.24Winchester Weeknights IV 2023: 44.36Winchester Weeknights V 2023: 39.89CubingUSA New England Championship 2023: 40.37WPI Winter 2024: 30.44Quabbin Newcomers 2024: 32.68Cubing at the Y - Stoughton 2024: 32.27Saint John's Showdown 2024: 30.58A Morning in Cambridge 2024: 29.50Lexington Weeknights I 2024: 29.72Wakefield MA Summer 2024: 30.98Lexington Weeknights II 2024: 27.80Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 28.88Lexington Weeknights V 2024: 29.33Brookline Favorites 2024: 21.96Lexing-not-a-ton of NxNs 2024: 27.86Amherst Fall 2024: 31.64The Battle of Lexington 2025: 26.83Fitchburg Fingertricks 2025: 26.13Cambridge Cube Clash 2025: 26.50Vermont Newcomers 2025: 25.16The Battle of Lexington Semiquincentennial 2025: 24.66CubingUSA New England Championship 2025: 22.82Brookline Favorites III 2025: 25.69Ipswich Fall 2025: 23.56Wide Moves & Waterslides CT 2026: 24.06The Battle of Concord MA 2026: 23.92Cube Against Cancer Boston 2026: 25.22Wakefield MA Spring 2026: 26.51Skowhegan Puzzlefest 2026: 26.10Saint John's Summer 2026: 26.24Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 28.73Deerfield MA Summer 2026: 22.31Brookline Favorites IV 2026: 25.9521.961:04.2421 Jun 202329 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.14 away.
  • A sub-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 1.96 away.

Targets move as he improves.