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Justus Danielsen

3×3 · top 4.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2016 · 2016DANI08

Justus Danielsen has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.62, set at Arkansas Championship 2025, puts him in the top 4.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,251st in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 34 competitions since May 2016, he has put 1,280 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 52% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.59 in May 2016 to 8.62, a 48% improvement. Justus has entered 34 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.0% of 284,439 all-time
8.62
signature single · Arkansas Championship 2025
1,280
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 52% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.6210.01
top 4.0%2,251 / 59,724
Pyraminx3.469.59
top 5.3%1,383 / 28,708
2×22.193.46
top 6.1%2,437 / 40,951
4×434.6740.51
top 6.4%989 / 19,072
5×51:04.271:16.87
top 7.9%624 / 9,401
3×3 one-handed16.0919.66
top 10.4%1,378 / 15,683
Skewb4.099.67
top 11.5%1,783 / 18,907
6×62:04.842:22.63
top 13.2%482 / 4,196
7×73:40.483:52.11
top 23.7%673 / 3,184
Megaminx1:30.171:42.53
top 28.3%1,961 / 7,841
3×3 blindfolded2:10.35—
top 36.8%772 / 2,092
Square-125.0542.76
top 39.3%2,549 / 6,743
3×3 Fewest Moves40 moves46.33
top 48.3%1,031 / 2,040
Clock16.5222.74
top 53.7%4,433 / 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

Cube Is Good 2016: 16.59Severna Park Fall 2016: 12.86Rockville Winter 2017: 10.85Red Cross Cubing Open 2017: 11.57NovaCube 2017: 10.50CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 10.61World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 12.27Maryland 2017: 9.34Penn Cube Day Winter 2018: 9.13Incredible Pencil Mania 2018: 11.18NovaCube 2018: 10.43Rutgers Spring 2018: 9.06Dewata Cube Day 2018: 10.92CubingUSA New Jersey Championship 2018: 9.47Return to Toronto 2019: 9.81Lower Moreland Winter 2019: 9.66Nepali Nationals 2019: 9.35Northern Neck Winter 2020: 10.05Kansas Cubing Open Spring 2022: 8.75Cashew Cubing 2022: 9.70Kansas City Krazy Cubing 2022: 8.77Cube Even More in Wichita 2022: 9.22Concordia Turning 2022: 9.96Springfield Winter Open 2023: 9.13Arkansolve 2023: 9.96Twisters in Tulsa 2023: 9.54Cubing for Autism Missouri 2023: 11.39Springfield Summer Open 2023: 9.07Arkansolve Fall 2024: 9.42Welcome Back Tulsa 2025: 9.23Arkansas Championship 2025: 8.62Wichita Art Museum 2026: 9.69Arkansas Championship 2026: 9.468.6216.5922 May 201620 Mar 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.62 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.46 away.

Targets move as he improves.