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Daniel O'Gorman

3×3 · top 9.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2015 · 2015OGOR01

Daniel O'Gorman has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.60, set at Hillsboro Open 2018, puts him in the top 9.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5,064th in the United States. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since November 2015, he has put 215 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 74% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.81 in November 2015 to 10.60, a 51% improvement. Daniel has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.3% of 284,439 all-time
10.60
signature single · Hillsboro Open 2018
215
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 74% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×310.6013.00
top 9.3%5,064 / 59,724
2×23.144.09
top 15.9%6,219 / 40,951
Pyraminx5.917.91
top 19.3%5,145 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed24.0030.45
top 31.5%4,091 / 15,683
4×41:03.531:22.59
top 40.2%6,534 / 19,072
Skewb10.0210.58
top 55.1%9,998 / 18,907

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

PDX Cubing Beta 2015: 21.81Oregon State Alpha 2016: 14.85Rose City 2016: 14.42US Nationals 2016: 13.11Oregon 2016: 13.00Atomic Fools 2017: 13.13Rose City 2017: 12.49PDX Cubing for Causes 2018: 11.07Oregon State 2018: 10.74Hillsboro Open 2018: 10.6010.6021.8121 Nov 201515 Sep 2018

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 0.60 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.14 away.

Targets move as he improves.