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Daniel Yakhkind (Даніель Яхкінд)

3×3 · top 0.46% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2015 · 2015YAKH01

Daniel Yakhkind (Даніель Яхкінд) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.96, set at Rubik's UK Championship 2023, puts him in the top 0.46% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 16th in Ukraine. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 47 competitions since August 2015, he has put 2,575 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 24.16 in August 2015 to 5.96, a 75% improvement. Daniel has entered 47 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.46% of 284,439 all-time
5.96
signature single · Rubik's UK Championship 2023
2,575
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 standingUkraine
3×35.967.75
top 0.46%16 / 2,868
2×21.582.91
top 2.5%85 / 1,894
4×430.0934.61
top 2.9%33 / 867
3×3 one-handed12.4115.57
top 3.6%34 / 755
Pyraminx3.685.33
top 6.2%115 / 1,471
Skewb3.576.24
top 8.2%68 / 884
5×51:08.501:17.60
top 10.6%49 / 425
Megaminx1:04.611:12.23
top 12.4%47 / 424
Clock7.679.38
top 13.6%53 / 347
3×3 blindfolded1:11.061:53.77
top 16.4%30 / 177
3×3 Fewest Moves33 moves37.67
top 23.4%52 / 222
Square-119.3724.23
top 26.4%86 / 302
6×62:45.532:49.07
top 33.7%59 / 169
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 7:55—
top 61.4%0 / 67
7×75:59.486:22.98
top 67.6%100 / 135

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

Kharkiv Cube Day 2015: 24.16Dnepr Skips 2015: 20.00Beit Dan Open 2015: 18.40Kharkiv Special 2016: 16.18Cowboys Summer 2016: 12.91Kharkiv Cube Day 2016: 12.69Fresh Cube 2017: 11.31Ukrainian Nationals 2017: 11.07Kharkiv Cube Day 2017: 11.63Belgorod Open 2017: 8.50Dnepr Skips 2017: 8.85Lviv Cube Cup 2017: 10.32Kharkiv Winter 2017: 9.66Dnepr Never Fails 2018: 8.68Lviv Spring Days 2018: 8.31Ukrainian Open 2018: 8.90White City Cubing 2018: 8.39Mariupol Open 2018: 7.56Kharkiv Open 2018: 9.63Ukrainian Nationals 2018: 8.48Smart Cube Fest 2018: 8.66Denmark & Friends 2019: 9.41Israel Championship 2019: 7.16Vinnytsia Cube Cup 2019: 7.81Kharkiv Open 2019: 8.02Cubing in the Succah 2019: 8.80Smartcube Fest Kyiv 2019: 8.44Cubes Masters Zhytomyr 2019: 8.39Cubes Masters Zhytomyr 2021: 7.80Kharkiv Cubefall 2021: 7.65Aficube A 2022: 6.27Rubik's WCA European Championship 2022: 7.12U24 Open September 2022: 6.01Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 6.96Harrow Autumn 2023: 7.27Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 5.96Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 7.73Kewbz UK Open 2024: 7.26Wiltshire Winter 2025: 7.645.9624.1616 Aug 201513 Dec 2025

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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.96 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.58 away.

Targets move as he improves.