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Declan Kelly

4×4 · top 0.32% of 83,917 all-time · competing since April 2018 · 2018KELL08

Declan Kelly has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 22.98, set at Summit Summer 2025, puts him in the top 0.32% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 59th in the United States. Until August 2014, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 27 competitions since April 2018, he has put 596 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 78% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 26.75 in April 2018 to 7.03, a 74% improvement. Declan has entered 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 0.32% of 83,917 all-time
22.98
signature single · Summit Summer 2025
596
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 78% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
4×422.9828.80
top 0.32%59 / 19,072
3×37.038.29
top 1.4%834 / 59,724
5×551.5858.54
top 2.2%175 / 9,401
2×21.793.19
top 3.5%1,386 / 40,951
Pyraminx3.885.80
top 7.1%1,803 / 28,708
Square-112.6415.91
top 11.2%780 / 6,743
Megaminx1:05.321:17.34
top 12.9%878 / 7,841
6×62:14.892:26.59
top 17.9%635 / 4,196
Clock8.849.21
top 19.1%1,461 / 8,927

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

No Place For DNF Spring 2018: 26.75North Plainfield Open 2018: 22.64New Hope Open Spring 2018: 19.85CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 17.65Kew Forest Open 2018: 16.23Princeton Fall 2018: 14.36Liberty Science Center Open 2018: 14.65New Hope Open Winter 2019: 17.54Princeton Winter 2019: 17.87Colonie Spring 2019: 13.75CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 12.10Ridge Cubing Fall 2019: 13.55Empire State Fall 2019: 13.40Liberty Science Center Open 2019: 13.83Babylon Fall 2021: 8.49Empire State Winter B 2022: 9.16Pennsylvania Championship 2022: 7.80Pretzel Mania 2022: 8.39West Chester Fall 2022: 7.79CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 8.26Spring into Summit 2024: 7.28Penn Cube Day Spring 2025: 7.03Summit Summer 2025: 7.73Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 7.93FSUbers 11.0 2026: 7.36Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 8.447.0326.757 Apr 20182 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-20 4×4 single — 42 people have one; it is 2.98 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.03 away.

Targets move as he improves.