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Ben Bautista
3×3 · top 4.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2022 · 2022BAUT01
Ben Bautista has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.95, set at Lakewood Fall 2023, puts him in the top 4.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,660th in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since April 2022, he has put 191 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 78% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.17 in April 2022 to 8.95, a 41% improvement. Ben has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 8.95 | 10.85 | top 4.7% | 2,660 / 59,724 | |
| 2×2 | 2.26 | 3.88 | top 6.7% | 2,653 / 40,951 | |
| Pyraminx | 6.00 | 10.08 | top 20.0% | 5,359 / 28,708 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 20.81 | 30.98 | top 22.7% | 2,915 / 15,683 | |
| 4×4 | 51.70 | 1:00.50 | top 26.8% | 4,124 / 19,072 | |
| Square-1 | 28.24 | 35.11 | top 46.1% | 3,006 / 6,743 |
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
- 14 Oct 2023Three personal bests in one day at Lakewood Fall 2023.
- 12 Nov 2022First sub-10 3×3: 9.06 at SnoCo Veteran's Weekend B 2022.
- 12 Nov 2022Four personal bests in one day at SnoCo Veteran's Weekend B 2022.
- 15 Oct 2022Three personal bests in one day at New Kent On The Block 2022.
- 12 Aug 2022Three personal bests in one day at Oregon Championship 2022.
- 8 May 2022First sub-15 3×3: 14.62 at Rose City First-Timers A 2022.
Competitions
- Lakewood Fall 2023 · 14 Oct 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Sleepless in Seattle 2023 · 18 Feb 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Big Cubes in Bothell 2022 · 10 Dec 2022 — 1 personal best set
- SnoCo Veteran's Weekend B 2022 · 12 Nov 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- New Kent On The Block 2022 · 15 Oct 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Oregon Championship 2022 · 12 Aug 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- School's Out PLU 2022 · 5 Jun 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Rose City First-Timers A 2022 · 8 May 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Bothell Spring 2022 · 23 Apr 2022 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Max Siauw — met in 38 rounds, never finished ahead
- Sameer Aggarwal — met in 34 rounds, never finished ahead
- Ash Black — met in 34 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.95 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.26 away.
Targets move as he improves.