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Daniel Karnaukh

Square-1 · top 0.099% of 25,272 all-time · competing since February 2014 · 2014KARN02

Daniel Karnaukh has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the Square-1: a personal-best single of 4.46, set at Newark's On Track 2023, puts him in the top 0.099% of the 25,272 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 13th in the United States. Until April 2022, no official Square-1 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 149 competitions since February 2014, he has put 7,827 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 67% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.54 in February 2014 to 5.21, a 78% improvement. Daniel has entered 149 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Square-1
best event — top 0.099% of 25,272 all-time
4.46
signature single · Newark's On Track 2023
7,827
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 67% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Square-14.465.81
top 0.099%13 / 6,743
Pyraminx1.162.72
top 0.12%44 / 28,708
3×35.216.96
top 0.16%116 / 59,724
3×3 Fewest Moves18 moves21.33
top 0.17%5 / 2,040
2×20.771.44
top 0.2%85 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed9.0712.94
top 0.54%84 / 15,683
5×546.5352.45
top 0.93%78 / 9,401
4×425.9928.54
top 0.98%167 / 19,072
Skewb2.173.52
top 1.8%265 / 18,907
6×61:37.311:42.19
top 3.4%126 / 4,196
Megaminx47.5253.51
top 4.0%281 / 7,841
7×72:32.252:43.65
top 4.1%111 / 3,184
Clock6.478.69
top 9.0%698 / 8,927
3×3 Multi-Blind8 of 8 cubes · 57:36—
top 25.2%185 / 731
3×3 blindfolded1:36.492:09.24
top 25.4%526 / 2,092
4×4 blindfolded25:06.00—
early days — 1 solve416 / 440

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

Princeton Winter 2014: 23.54Yale Spring 2014: 14.47US Nationals 2014: 12.66River Hill Summer 2014: 10.94GCC Fall 2014: 10.82Lexington Fall 2014: 10.54Red Cross Cubing Open 2014: 9.25Williams Winter 2015: 9.57Johns Hopkins Winter 2015: 10.47Yale Spring 2015: 10.29Doylestown Spring 2015: 9.64US Nationals 2015: 8.57Norwich Summer 2015: 7.00Lexington Fall 2015: 7.73Northeastern Fall 2015: 7.69Manhasset Fall 2015: 8.19Liberty Science 2015: 8.38Red Cross Cubing Open 2016: 7.49Slow N Steady Winter 2016: 6.79Princeton Winter 2016: 7.57Big Apple Cube Clash 2016: 8.09Manhasset Spring 2016: 7.02Big Apple Spring 2016: 8.30Cube For A Cure Spring 2016: 8.29Cube4Cam 2016: 6.86Slow N Steady Spring 2016: 7.12Melrose Summer 2016: 7.84US Nationals 2016: 7.61New York City Summer 2016: 7.87Princeton Fall 2016: 7.63Severna Park Fall 2016: 6.76Clifton Winter 2017: 6.39Rockville Winter 2017: 8.02New York City Winter 2017: 7.33Weston Spring 2017: 7.26Red Cross Cubing Open 2017: 7.58Big Cube Bash 2017: 7.35EZ Cubes Spring 2017: 6.48Lexington Summer 2017: 6.92CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 7.32World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 6.60Princeton Fall 2017: 6.98Maryland 2017: 6.78UPenn Cube Day Fall 2017: 7.65New York City Winter 2018: 6.99Penn Cube Day Winter 2018: 7.43Slow N Steady Winter 2018: 7.46Rutgers Spring 2018: 6.75No Place For DNF Spring 2018: 6.03Lower Moreland Spring 2018: 6.51Tea Time Spring 2018: 6.71New Hope Open Spring 2018: 6.16Brooklyn 2018: 7.08CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 6.60Kew Forest Open 2018: 7.15Princeton Fall 2018: 5.86Fall Foliage Cubing 2018: 5.98New York City Fall 2018: 5.85Lower Moreland Fall 2018: 6.83CubingUSA New Jersey Championship 2018: 7.22Penn Cube Day Fall 2018: 6.32Boston University Winter 2019: 6.48New Hope Open Winter 2019: 6.46Princeton Winter 2019: 7.06Arnold Classic North America 2019: 6.47Lower Moreland Winter 2019: 6.51Ridge Cubing 2019: 6.85George School Open 2019: 5.51Arcadia Summer 2019: 6.58Warm Up Sydney 2019: 6.56WCA World Championship 2019: 5.75Massachusetts Championship 2019: 6.82CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 5.43Cuyahoga Cubing 2019: 6.37Flag City Fall 2019: 5.81Kent Fall 2019: 6.80Scranton Scramble 2020: 6.93Michigan Cubing Club Alpha 2020: 6.01Utah Fall 2021: 6.99Pittsburgh Fall 2021: 6.74Welcome Back Texas 2021: 6.86North Star Cubing Challenge 2022: 5.86Ohio State Expo Open 2022: 5.59CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022: 5.89Three Attempts Chicago 2022: 6.54Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 6.53East Brunswick Open 2022: 6.61Pittsburgh Summer A 2022: 6.37CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2022: 6.68Pretzel Mania 2022: 6.18Pittsburgh Fall 2022: 5.21DFW Cubing Winter 2023: 7.03Bulldog Winter 2023: 6.53Kendeda Kubing B 2023: 6.52Washtenaw Spring A 2023: 6.00New Hampshire Spring 2023: 6.86Wilmington Warmup 2023: 6.53CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023: 6.53Silver City Side Events 2023: 6.49Westport Warmup 2023: 6.75CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 6.41Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 7.36Newark's On Track 2023: 6.56Cumberland County Cubing 2023: 6.72CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2023: 6.34New York New Year 2024: 5.77Milwaukee Cubing Mania 2024: 6.08Parsippany Mini PM 2024: 7.22New-Cumberland County 2024: 6.84Pennsylvania Championship 2024: 7.08Cubing in the Ocean County 2024: 6.58Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 6.40Tri-State Corner Comms PA 2024: 5.93Worlds Prep in Palisades 2025: 6.49Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.09Connecticut Championship 2025: 6.63Fort Lee Summer 2025: 6.40Liberty Science Center Open B 2026: 6.29RCBC Cube Day NJ 2026: 6.14Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 6.395.2123.5415 Feb 20142 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 Square-1 single — 11 people have one; it is 0.46 away.
  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.16 away.

Targets move as he improves.