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Daniel Perez

Clock · top 1.7% of 32,048 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022PERE46

Daniel Perez has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 3.65, set at DuPage Fall 2024, puts him in the top 1.7% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 156th in the United States. Until July 2018, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 26 competitions since October 2022, he has put 1,003 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 91% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.08 in October 2022 to 9.56, a 59% improvement. Daniel has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 1.7% of 32,048 all-time
3.65
signature single · DuPage Fall 2024
1,003
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 91% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Clock3.654.34
top 1.7%156 / 8,927
Pyraminx2.723.21
top 2.8%731 / 28,708
2×21.852.78
top 3.9%1,513 / 40,951
Square-19.2418.58
top 4.8%355 / 6,743
5×558.701:06.30
top 4.9%399 / 9,401
4×433.1839.00
top 5.1%787 / 19,072
Skewb3.085.29
top 5.4%829 / 18,907
3×39.5610.56
top 6.3%3,455 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed16.6119.74
top 11.6%1,521 / 15,683
6×62:03.822:06.99
top 12.6%462 / 4,196
7×73:08.803:23.25
top 13.0%354 / 3,184
Megaminx1:07.761:11.79
top 14.3%969 / 7,841
3×3 blindfolded2:10.71—
top 36.8%773 / 2,092
3×3 Fewest Moves37 moves41.33
top 37.3%810 / 2,040
3×3 Multi-Blind4 of 5 cubes · 41:18—
early days — 2 solves449 / 731
4×4 blindfolded21:12.00—
early days — 1 solve397 / 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

Mt. Prospect Open 2022: 23.08West Side Cube Clash 2023: 12.21Warm Up in Mount Prospect 2023: 15.87Evanston Summer Big Cubes 2023: 15.76Pyraminx in Pewaukee 2023: 14.63CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2023: 12.49Evanston Fall Mini B 2023: 14.40DuPage Winter 2024: 13.21Countless Cubes Chicagoland A 2024: 9.80Chicago Area Twist Spring A 2024: 11.59Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 12.05Cubing in Oak Creek 2024: 11.43DuPage Fall 2024: 11.80CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2024: 10.91Kenosha First B 2024: 9.92Racing Kane 2025: 10.23Chicagoland Newcomers 2025: 11.60IlliNxNois Spring 2025: 11.68Midwest Cubing Classic 2026: 10.21CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2026: 9.569.5623.088 Oct 20225 Jun 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-3 Clock single — 239 people have one; it is 0.65 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.72 away.

Targets move as he improves.