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Ben Coppin

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 1.0% of 12,294 all-time · competing since November 2013 · 2013COPP01

Ben Coppin has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 20 moves, set at WCA European Championship 2018, puts him in the top 1.0% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 8th in the United Kingdom. Across 44 competitions since November 2013, he has put 846 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 63% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 30.60 in November 2013 to 15.72, a 49% improvement. Ben has entered 44 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 1.0% of 12,294 all-time
20 moves
signature single · WCA European Championship 2018
846
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×3 Fewest Moves20 moves28.67
top 1.0%8 / 372
Skewb5.107.04
top 18.9%440 / 2,421
2×23.566.29
top 20.9%1,184 / 4,895
3×315.7220.17
top 26.9%1,775 / 6,689
Clock11.0612.35
top 30.4%400 / 1,232
3×3 one-handed24.2135.19
top 32.1%582 / 1,851
Square-122.5431.91
top 33.6%301 / 778
3×3 Multi-Blind5 of 5 cubes · 33:59—
top 36.6%61 / 126
Pyraminx8.1312.01
top 37.3%1,497 / 3,656
4×41:06.381:13.32
top 43.3%935 / 2,071
3×3 blindfolded3:12.173:43.79
top 55.8%211 / 311
5×52:35.543:05.60
top 68.4%844 / 1,151
6×65:44.256:16.93
top 88.6%509 / 548
Megaminx4:07.71—
top 91.2%936 / 966
7×710:32.00—
early days — 1 solve454 / 459

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

UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 30.60Nottingham Open 2014: 29.95Welwyn Garden City Open 2014: 29.49Nottingham Summer 2014: 30.25Welcome To Cambridge 2014: 29.03ABHC 2014: 28.37UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2014: 25.10Harrow Spring 2015: 24.66August Bank Holiday Competition 2015: 21.08UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 19.79Welcome Thay Cambridge 2015: 20.92Macclesfield Open 2016: 21.42Guildford Open 2016: 18.06UK Championship 2016: 23.87Peterborough Open 2017: 20.48Crawley Open 2017: 16.75World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 19.80August Bank Holiday Competition 2017: 19.59UK Championship 2017: 18.86Guildford Open 2018: 19.75WCA European Championship 2018: 18.44UK Championship 2018: 15.72UK Championship 2019: 18.50Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 19.97Stevenage 10th Anniversary 2025: 21.3015.7230.6016 Nov 20138 Nov 2025

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-5 Skewb single — 13,285 people have one; it is 0.10 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.56 away.

Targets move as he improves.