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Daniel Liu (刘芯圻)
3×3 · top 7.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2025 · 2025LIUD02
Daniel Liu (刘芯圻) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.06, set at Singapore Augu-Skewb Day 2026, puts him in the top 7.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,193rd in the United States. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since September 2025, he has put 69 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 88% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.95 in September 2025 to 10.06, a 16% improvement. Daniel has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 10.06 | 11.44 | top 7.6% | 4,193 / 59,724 | |
| 2×2 | 3.61 | 4.57 | top 21.6% | 8,439 / 40,951 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 6 Sep 2025First competition: Mofunland Speedcubing Singapore 2025. A 11.95 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Mofunland Speedcubing Singapore 2026 · 5 Sep 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Singapore Augu-Skewb Day 2026 · 23 Aug 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Shenyang Cubing League 3x3 IV 2026 · 8 Jul 2026
- Shenyang Cubing League 3x3 III 2026 · 1 Jul 2026
- Shenyang Cubing League 3x3 II 2026 · 24 Jun 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Singapore Double or Nothing Parity Mayhem 2026 · 24 May 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Singapore Polytechnic Sprint 2026 · 2 May 2026
- Singapore Two-Day Nov 2025 · 15 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Mofunland Speedcubing Singapore 2025 · 6 Sep 2025
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.
- Reyansh Sameer Chawan (रेयांश समीर चव्हाण) — met in 10 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
- Akash Sreedharan (ஆகாஷ் ஸ்ரீதரன்) — met in 10 rounds, finished ahead once
- Ng Jia Quan (黄佳铨) — met in 10 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.06 away.
- A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.61 away.
Targets move as he improves.