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Danny Liu

3×3 · top 5.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2021 · 2021LIUD02

Danny Liu has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.16, set at Bethesda Summer Showdown 2024, puts him in the top 5.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,928th in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since November 2021, he has put 514 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.43 in November 2021 to 9.16, a 32% improvement. Danny has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.2% of 284,439 all-time
9.16
signature single · Bethesda Summer Showdown 2024
514
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 73% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.1610.63
top 5.2%2,928 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed13.8116.57
top 5.8%805 / 15,683
Square-110.1112.02
top 6.3%460 / 6,743
5×51:08.191:15.84
top 10.4%811 / 9,401
2×22.964.31
top 13.8%5,409 / 40,951
4×443.4748.80
top 16.4%2,482 / 19,072
Clock11.0015.67
top 30.1%2,350 / 8,927
6×62:41.212:50.50
top 31.4%1,112 / 4,196
7×74:31.594:50.76
top 41.6%1,185 / 3,184
Skewb8.7314.50
top 46.6%8,247 / 18,907
Megaminx2:35.24—
early days — 2 solves4,851 / 7,841

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

Slow N Steady Fall 2021: 13.43Slow N Steady Spring 2022: 11.69Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 13.01Think In Fink Fall 2022: 15.37Slow N Steady Fall 2022: 12.22River Hill Fall 2022: 10.21Penn Cube Day Spring 2023: 11.26Virginia Re-Open Spring 2023: 13.20Slow N Steady Spring 2023: 11.72CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023: 12.55CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 12.09Slow N Steady Fall 2023: 11.12River Hill Fall 2023: 10.77NoVa Cube Winter 2024: 10.98Penn Cube Day Spring 2024: 10.24Slow N Steady Spring 2024: 11.29Pennsylvania Championship 2024: 10.71Bethesda Summer Showdown 2024: 9.16Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 9.24Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 10.759.1615.3720 Nov 20213 Jul 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.16 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 1.81 away.

Targets move as he improves.