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Daniel Rush

3×3 · top 0.0098% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2018 · 2018RUSH01

Daniel Rush has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 3.82, set at Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026, puts him in the top 0.0098% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in South Africa. Until November 2018, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 71 competitions since April 2018, he has put 4,383 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:02.58 in April 2018 to 3.82, a 94% improvement. Daniel has entered 71 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.0098% of 284,439 all-time
3.82
signature single · Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026
4,383
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSouth Africa
3×33.826.02
top 0.0098%1 / 2,164
5×536.9442.12
top 0.049%1 / 221
2×20.621.87
top 0.052%1 / 1,510
6×61:05.861:13.38
top 0.057%1 / 84
4×420.3623.69
top 0.066%1 / 491
7×71:45.411:52.95
top 0.13%1 / 69
Pyraminx1.783.51
top 0.8%3 / 946
Megaminx37.8244.31
top 1.1%2 / 266
Skewb1.934.48
top 1.2%6 / 438
3×3 one-handed10.8314.47
top 1.7%5 / 467
Square-16.9510.54
top 1.7%1 / 118
Clock4.225.58
top 2.7%2 / 148
3×3 Fewest Moves25 moves32.67
top 5.1%3 / 53
3×3 blindfolded49.271:32.03
top 9.6%5 / 53
3×3 Multi-Blind8 of 9 cubes · 47:10—
top 26.8%6 / 27
4×4 blindfolded7:54.55—
early days — 3 solves6 / 15

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

Speedcubes Cape Town 2018: 1:02.58Cape Town Spring 2019: 12.90Cape Town Summer 2020: 8.68Durban Summer Warm-up 2021: 7.32Cape Town Summer 2022: 6.83Speedcubes Cape Town 2022: 7.43Arnold Classic Africa 2022: 6.55CubeCo Durban Winter Warmup 2022: 5.98Green School Paarl Open 2022: 5.58Rubik's WCA African Championship 2022: 6.22Just Cube Joburg 2022: 7.69CubeCo Durban Summer 2022: 5.99CubingZA Cape Cubes Summer 2023: 6.88Crazy Cubing Centurion 2023: 6.08CubingZA Cape Cubes Autumn 2023: 6.34CubingZA National Championship 2023: 6.77Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 5.37CubingZA Cape Cubes Spring 2023: 4.87Mimosa Mall Master Cubers 2023: 6.05CubingZA Cape Cubes Challenge 2023: 5.32Cubestuff Challenge Q1 2024: 6.35Mid Summer Madness Cape Town 2024: 6.11Cubestuff Challenge Q2 2024: 6.87Harvest Moon Cape Town 2024: 5.93Eversdal Autumn 2024: 5.06Belfast Summer 2024: 6.30Edinburgh Summer Open 2024: 5.98Manchester June 2024: 5.83Rubik's Irish Championship 2024: 6.17Warm Up Portugalete 2024: 6.20Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 5.91Qualifying in Kirstenhof 2024: 6.21Rubik's WCA African Championship 2024: 5.71Beginner and Blind Cape Town 2024: 5.24Tír Chonaill Cubing 2024: 5.30Don't Fail Kinsale 2024: 5.61Cubing in the Bay Port Elizabeth 2024: 5.68Cape Cubes Challenge 2024: 5.49Puzzles in Pinehurst 2025: 5.78Newcomers Cape Cube-Fest 2025: 4.86CuBeaulieu Craze Comeback 2025: 5.72Mega Mania Cape Town 2025: 5.39CubingZA Nationals 2025: 5.86Mother City Cubing Cape Town 2025: 5.52Warm Up Seattle 2025: 5.53Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 5.35Cape Cubes Winter 2025: 5.99Rubik's Irish Championship 2025: 5.04Rubik's UK Championship 2025: 5.56Menlo Cubing Open 2025: 5.58Cape Cubes Spring 2025: 5.59Solving in Sedgefield 2025: 5.90Cubestuff Q4 Zwartkop 2025: 6.02Cubestuff Grand Challenge Cape Town 2025: 5.72Cubing in the Cape Q1 2026: 5.52TUD Unscramble Day 2026: 5.60French Championship 2026: 5.08Eversdal Autumn Cape Town 2026: 4.82Cubestuff Grand Challenge - The Leonardo 2026: 5.47Farewell Strathclyde University 2026: 5.42Warm Up Lent 2026: 5.10Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 3.823.821:02.589 Apr 201816 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-3 3×3 single — 3 people have one; it is 0.82 away.
  • A sub-30 5×5 single — 1 people have one; it is 6.94 away.

Targets move as he improves.