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Daniel York

3×3 · top 1.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2015 · 2015YORK01

Daniel York has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.00, set at Flex in Lex 2024, puts him in the top 1.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 812th in the United States. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 56 competitions since November 2015, he has put 1,954 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 88% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.84 in November 2015 to 7.00, a 66% improvement. Daniel has entered 56 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.3% of 284,439 all-time
7.00
signature single · Flex in Lex 2024
1,954
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 88% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.009.67
top 1.3%812 / 59,724
Pyraminx2.133.35
top 1.4%372 / 28,708
Skewb2.525.94
top 3.0%449 / 18,907
2×21.793.06
top 3.5%1,386 / 40,951
4×439.4742.92
top 11.5%1,698 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed17.3021.84
top 13.3%1,720 / 15,683
Clock7.829.95
top 14.3%1,095 / 8,927
5×51:22.291:30.29
top 20.9%1,625 / 9,401
Megaminx1:23.161:34.20
top 23.8%1,650 / 7,841
6×62:43.852:49.72
top 32.9%1,173 / 4,196
Square-123.8531.60
top 36.6%2,377 / 6,743
7×74:28.824:40.06
top 40.7%1,156 / 3,184
3×3 blindfolded2:22.694:42.38
top 41.0%871 / 2,092
3×3 Fewest Moves46 moves—
top 68.6%1,424 / 2,040
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 16:49—
early days — 2 solves541 / 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

AZCubing Fall 2015: 20.84AZCubing Winter 2016: 16.18AZCubing Spring 2016: 13.05AZCubing Summer 2016: 14.95AZCubing Fall 2016: 15.04AZCubing Winter 2017: 13.44AZCubing Spring 2017: 15.12Cubing Comp at Hamilton 2017: 13.75AZCubing Summer 2017: 10.47Cubic Meltdown 2017: 13.12AZCubing Hamilton Winter 2018: 10.18AZCubing Open 2018: 12.08AZCubing Spring 2019: 13.22CubingUSA Western Championship 2019: 10.34AZCubing Summer 2019: 11.85AZCubing Winter 2019: 11.58Utah Fall 2021: 11.94Cobb Cubes Comeback 2A 2021: 8.95Baton Rouge Winter 2022: 10.25GA Cubers Greetings 2022: 11.71FSUbers 2.0 2022: 8.54GA Cubers Pride 2022: 9.96Let's Even the Odds Alabama 2022: 8.27T-Town Showdown 2022: 9.21Concordia Turning 2022: 9.29GA Cubers Mashed Potatoes 2022: 11.49AZCubing Winter 2022: 9.16Music City Speedsolving 2023: 9.05Kendeda Kubing A 2023: 9.50Gonna Need a Bigger Cube SD 2023: 10.06UCSD Winter 2024: 9.12Beat the Clock Westminster 2024: 8.04Mississippi Cubing Dawgs 2024: 8.93Flex in Lex 2024: 7.00Kisco Cubing 2025: 9.45Cubing on the Plains at Auburn 2025: 9.22Atlanta Algs at AIS 2025: 9.67Alabama Crimson Cubing Spring 2025: 9.48Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 10.18CubingUSA Southern Championship 2025: 8.06Fort Payne Summer 2025: 8.44Atlanta Algs at AIS Autumn 2025: 9.03GA Cuber Jackets Fall 2025: 9.71Spookin' on the Plains at Auburn 2025: 8.24Marietta Monday Mini II 2026: 9.07Middle Georgia March Madness 2026: 9.24Marietta Monday Mini III 2026: 8.88CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2026: 9.24GA Cuber Jackets Spring 2026: 8.60The Loveliest Solves on the Plains Auburn 2026: 8.36Middle Georgia Summer Solving 2026: 9.227.0020.847 Nov 201525 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.

  • Daniel Mullen — met in 194 rounds, finished ahead 13 times
  • Katie Hull — met in 193 rounds, finished ahead 29 times
  • Clay Moore — met in 143 rounds, finished ahead 97 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.00 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.13 away.

Targets move as he improves.