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Daniel Polichetti

Square-1 · top 1.1% of 25,272 all-time · competing since October 2023 · 2023POLI07

Daniel Polichetti has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the Square-1: a personal-best single of 6.43, set at Oklahoma Championship 2026, puts him in the top 1.1% of the 25,272 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 87th in the United States. Until May 2017, no official Square-1 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since October 2023, he has put 555 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 92% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.14 in October 2023 to 10.78, an 11% improvement. Daniel has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

Square-1
best event — top 1.1% of 25,272 all-time
6.43
signature single · Oklahoma Championship 2026
555
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 92% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Square-16.438.50
top 1.1%87 / 6,743
Pyraminx3.406.47
top 5.1%1,324 / 28,708
Megaminx52.9356.61
top 6.4%456 / 7,841
2×22.243.73
top 6.5%2,588 / 40,951
3×310.7812.44
top 9.8%5,325 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed17.0825.20
top 12.8%1,654 / 15,683
Clock8.0312.16
top 15.3%1,172 / 8,927
4×444.0249.70
top 17.1%2,594 / 19,072
5×51:24.121:30.98
top 22.5%1,738 / 9,401
Skewb6.9110.50
top 33.0%5,525 / 18,907
6×62:52.343:02.31
top 37.2%1,347 / 4,196
3×3 Fewest Moves39 moves—
early days — 2 solves969 / 2,040
7×74:42.305:27.85
top 45.3%1,312 / 3,184
3×3 blindfolded3:11.33—
early days — 2 solves1,176 / 2,092
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 4 cubes · 35:39—
early days — 1 solve715 / 731

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

Lawton OKtoberfest Fall 2023: 12.14Oklahoma Championship 2024: 12.69Cube More in Ardmore 2024: 13.43OKC Holiday Cube-Off 2024: 11.43Oklahoma Championship 2025: 11.57Cube More in Ardmore 2025: 10.78Lawton OKtoberfest 2025: 11.08OKC Winter 2026: 11.21Oklahoma Championship 2026: 12.4210.7813.4314 Oct 202315 May 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-6 Square-1 single — 201 people have one; it is 0.43 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.40 away.

Targets move as he improves.