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Daniel Porter

Pyraminx · top 0.27% of 129,321 all-time · competing since August 2017 · 2017PORT04

Daniel Porter has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.35, set at Florida Winter Break 2019, puts him in the top 0.27% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 91st in the United States. Until October 2015, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 56 competitions since August 2017, he has put 3,365 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 68% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 26.78 in August 2017 to 6.67, a 75% improvement. Daniel has entered 56 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.27% of 129,321 all-time
1.35
signature single · Florida Winter Break 2019
3,365
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 68% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Pyraminx1.351.99
top 0.27%91 / 28,708
2×21.162.18
top 0.92%390 / 40,951
3×36.678.47
top 1.0%633 / 59,724
Skewb2.033.67
top 1.5%215 / 18,907
4×430.4033.82
top 3.1%501 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed12.7917.21
top 4.1%599 / 15,683
Clock5.186.87
top 4.9%391 / 8,927
5×51:01.081:08.51
top 6.1%498 / 9,401
Square-110.6012.73
top 7.2%521 / 6,743
Megaminx1:05.201:11.76
top 12.8%872 / 7,841
3×3 Fewest Moves31 moves35.33
top 17.4%385 / 2,040
6×62:14.312:21.38
top 17.5%623 / 4,196
7×73:37.903:47.34
top 22.7%642 / 3,184
3×3 blindfolded2:38.814:59.02
top 46.0%991 / 2,092
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 13:00—
early days — 2 solves505 / 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

Classic City Summer 2017: 26.78Rocket City 2.0 2017: 20.15Whale Sounds 2018: 15.86STEM Educ8 2018: 14.01Lion Pride 2018: 14.41Pyra Pandemonium 2018: 13.37Windsor Classic 2018: 11.94Cobb Cubes Again 2018: 12.93CubingUSA Georgia Championship 2018: 10.59Lion Pride 2019: 11.31Florida 2019: 9.75CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2019: 9.62Gator Cubing Spring Open 2019: 9.97Indialantic Open 2019: 10.22Jacksonville 2019: 8.70CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 11.56Florida Fall Fest 2019: 9.70Chipola 2019: 10.09Florida Winter Break 2019: 9.49Cubing with Manatees 2020: 9.02GA Cubers Return B 2021: 8.15Florida Returns 2021: 8.41Florida Fall 2021: 7.68FSUbers 2.0 2022: 8.89CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2022: 9.09FSUbers 3.0 2022: 7.55Pegasus 2023: 8.18Holiday Open 2023: 8.72Tally Spring 2023: 8.84CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2023: 7.77FSUbers 4.0 2023: 7.34Fountain City 2023: 7.15CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 8.52Cubing Knights IV 2023: 7.74Sowega Solving 2023: 7.65Jacksonville Winter 2023: 9.25FSUbers 5.0 2024: 8.44Fountain City Spring Fling 2024: 6.67FSUbers 6.0 2024: 7.17CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2024: 7.75Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 8.42Beach Bash Jacksonville 2024: 8.11FSUbers 7.0 2024: 7.09St. Augustine 2024: 7.38Solving in Savannah 2025: 6.81FSUbers 8.0 2025: 7.88CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2025: 8.84Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 8.31Beach Bash Jacksonville 2025: 7.23Zephyr Cube Bash 2025: 8.29FSUbers 10.0 2025: 6.70Solving in Savannah 2026: 7.19CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2026: 7.78The Loveliest Solves on the Plains Auburn 2026: 8.04Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 8.156.6726.785 Aug 20172 Jul 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.

  • Sean Hartman — met in 591 rounds, finished ahead 107 times
  • Katie Hull — met in 485 rounds, finished ahead 108 times
  • Noah Swor — met in 454 rounds, finished ahead 75 times

Next targets

  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.35 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.16 away.

Targets move as he improves.