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Daniel Wright

3×3 · top 5.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2015 · 2015WRIG03

Daniel Wright has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.44, set at UK Championship 2016, puts him in the top 5.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 445th in the United Kingdom. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since May 2015, he has put 179 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 86% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.49 in May 2015 to 9.44, a 39% improvement. Daniel has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.9% of 284,439 all-time
9.44
signature single · UK Championship 2016
179
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 86% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×39.4411.76
top 5.9%445 / 6,689
2×22.623.34
top 10.1%661 / 4,895
Pyraminx5.489.68
top 16.3%631 / 3,656
Skewb6.1210.72
top 26.6%616 / 2,421
3×3 one-handed22.6525.79
top 27.8%508 / 1,851
4×41:15.871:27.35
top 52.4%1,126 / 2,071
3×3 Fewest Moves71 moves
early days — 1 solve370 / 372

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

Welwyn Garden City 2015: 15.49UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 10.42Exeter Open 2016: 11.09UK Championship 2016: 9.44UK Championship 2017: 10.309.4415.4923 May 201527 Oct 2017

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.44 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.62 away.

Targets move as he improves.