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Daniel Sheppard

2×2 · top 0.82% of 186,767 all-time · competing since November 2009 · 2009SHEP01

Daniel Sheppard has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.12, set at Belgian Open 2017, puts him in the top 0.82% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 68th in the United Kingdom. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 101 competitions since November 2009, he has put 7,394 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 94% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.94 in November 2009 to 7.78, a 59% improvement. Daniel has entered 101 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.82% of 186,767 all-time
1.12
signature single · Belgian Open 2017
7,394
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 94% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
2×21.122.46
top 0.82%68 / 4,895
Pyraminx2.443.65
top 2.1%76 / 3,656
3×3 Fewest Moves22 moves23.33
top 2.2%16 / 372
3×37.7810.01
top 2.4%198 / 6,689
4×429.3834.50
top 2.5%61 / 2,071
Skewb2.805.39
top 4.0%93 / 2,421
5×559.431:05.96
top 5.2%73 / 1,151
3×3 one-handed13.6517.80
top 5.5%108 / 1,851
3×3 Multi-Blind19 of 21 cubes · 54:40—
top 6.6%15 / 126
Clock5.976.87
top 7.2%99 / 1,232
Megaminx54.851:02.47
top 7.4%97 / 966
7×72:50.933:00.60
top 8.2%37 / 459
3×3 blindfolded46.561:07.99
top 8.8%43 / 311
Square-111.7114.53
top 9.3%98 / 778
4×4 blindfolded3:17.41—
top 9.6%13 / 84
6×61:58.222:01.75
top 10.3%68 / 548
5×5 blindfolded7:05.68—
top 10.9%7 / 50

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

UK Open 2009: 18.94Bristol Open 2009: 17.77Benelux Open 2010: 15.65Bristol Spring 2010: 15.58Belgian Open 2010: 15.75Swedish Open 2010: 14.43European Rubik's Cube Championship 2010: 13.59UK Open 2010: 14.21Helsinki Open 2011: 12.44French Open 2011: 11.05Danish Open 2011: 11.50Vårgårda Open 2011: 11.77Guildford Summer Open 2011: 12.18World Rubik's Cube Championship 2011: 11.09UK Open 2011: 10.77Irish Open 2012: 11.65Rapid Dash Open 2012: 9.34Weston-super-Mare 2012: 9.93N8W8 Summer 2012: 10.52European Rubik's Cube Championship 2012: 11.22UK Open 2012: 8.93Edinburgh Open 2013: 10.94Leicester Open 2013: 10.46Northern Irish Open 2013: 10.66Nottingham Open 2013: 11.46Cambridge Open 2013: 10.52World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 10.23Berkeley Summer 2013: 11.30Guildford Open 2013: 10.68Cuthberts Open 2013: 11.35UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 8.62Nottingham Open 2014: 9.70Welwyn Garden City Open 2014: 11.08Oxford Open 2014: 9.39Nottingham Summer 2014: 9.17Welcome To Cambridge 2014: 10.18Rubik's Cube European Championships 2014: 9.34ABHC 2014: 10.13Cuthberts Open 2014: 10.32UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2014: 10.98Oxford Winter 2014: 10.47Harrow Spring 2015: 10.19Edinburgh Spring 2015: 11.16Welcome Back to Guildford 2015: 9.68Welwyn Garden City 2015: 9.55Irish Championship 2015: 10.86World Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 10.00August Bank Holiday Competition 2015: 10.42Cuthberts Open 2015: 9.63UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 10.52Welcome Thay Cambridge 2015: 10.76Exeter Open 2016: 9.73North London Open 2016: 10.59European Rubik's Cube Championship 2016: 9.87Macclesfield Open 2016: 8.83Tübingen Open 2016: 10.12August Bank Holiday Competition 2016: 9.22Guildford Open 2016: 9.21UK Championship 2016: 10.26Ó Paí Open 2016: 9.38Manchester Open 2017: 9.98Peterborough Open 2017: 9.07Newcastle-under-Lyme Open 2017: 9.33Crawley Open 2017: 9.28Hillcrest Cubing 2017: 9.24London Open 2017: 8.96World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 9.20Beijing Ten Years Open 2017: 10.58UK Championship 2017: 9.23Belgian Open 2017: 8.24Weston-super-Mare Open 2017: 9.82Italian Championship 2017: 9.99Manchester Open 2018: 8.16Guildford Open 2018: 9.18High Wycombe Open 2018: 9.37Hastings Open 2018: 9.83Peterborough Open 2018: 8.97WCA European Championship 2018: 9.18August Bank Holiday Competition 2018: 9.98UK Championship 2018: 9.44Weston-super-Mare Open 2018: 8.81WCA South American Championship 2018: 8.65Fontwell Open 2019: 8.92Welsh Open 2019: 9.39Chester Open 2019: 10.28Lincoln Open 2019: 7.78London Open 2019: 8.89High Wycombe Open 2019: 9.20Irish Championship 2019: 9.40WCA World Championship 2019: 10.21August Bank Holiday Celebration 2019: 9.14UK Championship 2019: 9.68Weston-super-Mare Open 2019: 10.07Guildford Open 2020: 8.62Fontwell Open 2020: 9.687.7818.947 Nov 20098 Feb 2020

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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.12 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.44 away.

Targets move as he improves.