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Daniel Penilla Jiménez

3×3 one-handed · top 5.2% of 73,695 all-time · competing since December 2016 · 2016JIME14

Daniel Penilla Jiménez has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 13.50, set at Liga SLP Jornada Amarillo 2024, puts him in the top 5.2% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 87th in Mexico. Until January 2010, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since December 2016, he has put 471 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.94 in February 2017 to 9.52, a 26% improvement. Daniel has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 5.2% of 73,695 all-time
13.50
signature single · Liga SLP Jornada Amarillo 2024
471
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingMexico
3×3 one-handed13.5017.87
top 5.2%87 / 1,672
Skewb3.095.29
top 5.4%92 / 1,157
3×39.5210.77
top 6.2%320 / 4,263
2×22.263.98
top 6.7%245 / 3,018
4×438.7542.17
top 10.6%235 / 1,845
5×51:16.861:28.87
top 16.7%187 / 1,010
Megaminx1:13.891:19.60
top 18.0%198 / 1,042
Pyraminx7.2011.44
top 29.5%704 / 2,003
7×74:02.854:16.59
top 31.8%150 / 472
6×63:09.263:20.81
top 45.3%240 / 510
Clock19.2625.35
top 62.5%435 / 652
3×3 blindfolded8:02.80
early days — 1 solve239 / 251

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

NxN México 2017: 12.94Tunas Open 2018: 11.01ArCubingFest Queretaro 2018: 12.18Mexican Championship 2018: 12.09Tula 2018: 9.52 Tlaxcallan 2019: 11.13Misión México 2019: 9.70Zaragoza Open 2023: 9.56Cronos Querétaro 2023: 11.34Salamanca Guanajuato 2024: 10.03Liga SLP Jornada Amarillo 2024: 9.969.5212.9425 Feb 201710 Nov 2024

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-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 1.50 away.
  • A sub-3 Skewb single — 3,646 people have one; it is 0.09 away.

Targets move as he improves.