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Darren Saito

4×4 · top 0.17% of 85,040 all-time · competing since October 2018 · 2018SAIT06

Darren Saito has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 21.77, set at Saint John's Summer 2026, puts him in the top 0.17% of the 85,040 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 29th in the United States. Until October 2015, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 35 competitions since October 2018, he has put 2,166 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 59% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.54 in October 2018 to 5.40, a 63% improvement. Darren has entered 35 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 0.17% of 85,040 all-time
21.77
signature single · Saint John's Summer 2026
2,166
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
4×421.7724.76
top 0.17%29 / 19,354
3×35.406.46
top 0.22%153 / 60,666
Pyraminx1.353.09
top 0.27%94 / 29,168
3×3 one-handed8.5610.37
top 0.35%55 / 15,900
Skewb1.563.47
top 0.52%86 / 19,164
2×21.061.62
top 0.68%289 / 41,674
Square-16.239.37
top 0.97%82 / 6,846
5×548.5454.15
top 1.4%123 / 9,537
Megaminx40.1247.51
top 1.6%118 / 8,026
Clock4.935.87
top 4.2%348 / 9,172
6×61:47.931:51.87
top 6.5%224 / 4,262
3×3 blindfolded59.96—
top 13.1%253 / 2,128
7×73:37.103:40.52
top 22.3%643 / 3,236
3×3 Fewest Moves42 moves44.67
top 55.7%1,193 / 2,059

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

MIT Fall 2018: 14.54The Battle of Lexington 2018: 11.45The Battle of Lexington 2019: 9.29Cubing in Cambridge 2019: 9.42Massachusetts Championship 2019: 8.68Deerfield Winter 2022: 7.80Maine Spring 2022: 6.41Saint John's Spring 2022: 7.09Moose On The Loose Cubikon 2022: 5.74CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022: 6.87Fast In Mass 2022: 7.02Granite State 2022: 6.63Amherst Open 2022: 5.71Loon Cubikon 2022: 5.72Pioneer Valley Cubing A 2023: 6.40Saint John's Scramble 2023: 6.85Cubehenge 2023: 5.56Return to Quabbin 2023: 5.60CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 6.82Winchester Weeknights IV 2023: 7.32CubingUSA New England Championship 2023: 6.05Saint John's Showdown 2024: 6.47Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 6.55Penn Cube Day Fall 2024: 5.40A Monday in Ashfield 2024: 6.43Penn Cube Day Spring 2025: 5.58Saint John's Warm Up 2025: 6.02Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.00CubingUSA New England Championship 2025: 6.38Penn Cube Day Fall 2025: 5.82Penn Cube Day Spring 2026: 5.54Saint John's Summer 2026: 5.44Penn Cube Day Fall 2026: 6.145.4014.546 Oct 201810 Oct 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.

  • Will Russo — met in 268 rounds, finished ahead 215 times
  • Derek White — met in 261 rounds, finished ahead 218 times
  • Levi Gibson — met in 247 rounds, finished ahead 197 times

Next targets

  • A sub-20 4×4 single — 46 people have one; it is 1.77 away.
  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 355 people have one; it is 0.40 away.

Targets move as he improves.