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Ben Davies

3×3 · top 1.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2022 · 2022DAVI25

Ben Davies has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.91, set at Ottawa 3x3x3 Fall C 2024, puts him in the top 1.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 126th in Canada. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since August 2022, he has put 626 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 50% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.99 in August 2022 to 6.91, a 37% improvement. Ben has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.2% of 284,439 all-time
6.91
signature single · Ottawa 3x3x3 Fall C 2024
626
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 50% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×36.918.54
top 1.2%126 / 10,392
2×21.702.06
top 3.1%201 / 7,173
5×555.6558.41
top 3.6%36 / 1,499
4×431.7935.96
top 4.0%92 / 3,118
6×61:40.481:48.21
top 4.2%19 / 665
7×72:38.192:45.78
top 5.2%18 / 503
Pyraminx3.805.47
top 6.7%231 / 4,858
3×3 one-handed15.0420.09
top 8.2%181 / 2,620
Skewb4.9111.31
top 17.4%396 / 2,907
Square-120.9127.08
top 30.0%262 / 952
Megaminx1:52.871:56.30
top 42.0%457 / 1,375
3×3 Fewest Moves41 moves—
early days — 2 solves157 / 283
Clock32.65—
early days — 3 solves884 / 1,029

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

Battle of Waterloo 2022: 10.99Ajax NxNxN 2022: 8.51Oakville Fall A 2022: 9.19Open de Gatineau A 2023: 8.28National Capital Region B 2023: 7.83Appleby Summer A 2023: 8.57Défi Jeunesse Montréal 2023: 7.36Ottawa 3x3x3 Winter C 2024: 7.49Open de Gatineau A 2024: 8.23Ottawa Spring 2024: 7.50Carleton Place Summer 2024: 7.55Ottawa Summer 2024: 7.12Ontario Championship 2024: 8.47Ottawa Favourites 2024: 8.22Ottawa 3x3x3 Fall C 2024: 6.916.9110.9920 Aug 202226 Oct 2024

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.91 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.70 away.

Targets move as he improves.