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David John Gomez
Clock · top 0.93% of 32,048 all-time · competing since May 2022 · 2022GOME10
David John Gomez has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 3.12, set at CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025, puts him in the top 0.93% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 89th in the United States. Until May 2021, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 14 competitions since May 2022, he has put 554 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 80% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.89 in May 2022 to 7.12, a 52% improvement. David has entered 14 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clock | 3.12 | 3.99 | top 0.93% | 89 / 8,927 | |
| 3×3 | 7.12 | 8.77 | top 1.5% | 887 / 59,724 | |
| 2×2 | 1.87 | 3.11 | top 4.0% | 1,565 / 40,951 | |
| Square-1 | 8.77 | 12.58 | top 4.1% | 307 / 6,743 | |
| 4×4 | 34.93 | 42.38 | top 6.6% | 1,028 / 19,072 | |
| Pyraminx | 3.97 | 5.08 | top 7.5% | 1,914 / 28,708 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 16.13 | 18.97 | top 10.5% | 1,386 / 15,683 | |
| Skewb | 4.40 | 6.16 | top 13.7% | 2,138 / 18,907 | |
| 5×5 | 1:19.21 | 1:26.31 | top 18.5% | 1,426 / 9,401 | |
| Megaminx | 1:21.18 | 1:30.32 | top 22.6% | 1,555 / 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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 25 Apr 2026Three personal bests in one day at Welcome to Washington D.C. 2026.
- 30 Aug 2025Five personal bests in one day at CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025.
- 3 Jul 2025Three personal bests in one day at Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025.
- 1 Feb 2025Three personal bests in one day at Cubing with the Cougars WV 2025.
- 14 Sep 2024Three personal bests in one day at Gaithersburg Back to School 2024.
- 4 May 2024Four personal bests in one day at Cubing at Carson 2024.
Competitions
- Welcome to Washington D.C. 2026 · 25 Apr 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025 · 30 Aug 2025 — 5 personal bests set
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025 · 3 Jul 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Cubing with the Cougars WV 2025 · 1 Feb 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Bethesda Winter Wonderland 2025 · 18 Jan 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Gaithersburg Back to School 2024 · 14 Sep 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Cubing at Carson 2024 · 4 May 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- MoCo Cubing Winter 2024 · 20 Jan 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Cumberland County Cubing 2023 · 14 Oct 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Nationals 2023 · 27 Jul 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Virginia Re-Open Spring 2023 · 25 Mar 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- Think In Fink Fall 2022 · 1 Oct 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Pretzel Mania 2022 · 3 Sep 2022 — 6 personal bests set
- Country Roads Huntington 2022 · 28 May 2022
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.
- Hassan Khanani — met in 101 rounds, finished ahead 7 times
- Panashe Sharma — met in 89 rounds, finished ahead 14 times
- Zayn Khanani — met in 84 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
Next targets
- A sub-3 Clock single — 239 people have one; it is 0.12 away.
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.12 away.
Targets move as he improves.