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Daniel Lucas Dailo

3×3 · top 9.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2019 · 2019DAIL01

Daniel Lucas Dailo has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.73, set at Agoura SpookCubing 2023, puts him in the top 9.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5,253rd in the United States. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since January 2019, he has put 339 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.98 in January 2019 to 10.73, a 33% improvement. Daniel has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.7% of 284,439 all-time
10.73
signature single · Agoura SpookCubing 2023
339
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 73% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×310.7312.94
top 9.7%5,253 / 59,724
2×22.994.59
top 14.1%5,541 / 40,951
Square-114.0919.93
top 14.4%976 / 6,743
3×3 one-handed18.1621.01
top 15.5%1,997 / 15,683
5×51:24.781:31.87
top 23.1%1,792 / 9,401
4×448.9053.97
top 23.3%3,553 / 19,072
7×74:04.114:04.81
top 32.3%904 / 3,184
6×62:43.502:47.50
top 32.7%1,162 / 4,196
Megaminx1:39.661:50.08
top 34.4%2,443 / 7,841
3×3 blindfolded4:41.83
early days — 2 solves1,589 / 2,092

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

Another Bruin Cube Day 2019: 15.98Mudd Winter 2019: 16.96UCSD Winter 2019: 17.48Thousand Oaks Cubing Open 2019: 15.68West LA Spring 2019: 16.00CubingUSA Western Championship 2019: 12.62Nisei Week 2019: 14.81Santa Barbara Fall 2019: 11.34Mudd Fall 2019: 11.72Grossmont Fall 2019: 13.12UCSD Winter 2020: 12.04West LA Winter 2020: 12.04Mudd Winter 2020: 11.29Agoura SpookCubing 2023: 10.73Beckman Gets Big 2023: 11.3810.7317.4812 Jan 201910 Dec 2023

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.73 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.99 away.

Targets move as he improves.