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Ben Edwards

3×3 · top 0.88% of 288,433 all-time · competing since March 2019 · 2019EDWA01

Ben Edwards has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.52, set at Racing Kane 2026, puts him in the top 0.88% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 565th in the United States. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 37 competitions since March 2019, he has put 1,776 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 62% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.31 in March 2019 to 6.52, a 51% improvement. Ben has entered 37 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.88% of 288,433 all-time
6.52
signature single · Racing Kane 2026
1,776
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 62% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.528.55
top 0.88%565 / 60,666
2×21.402.93
top 1.7%711 / 41,674
3×3 one-handed11.8213.91
top 2.8%445 / 15,900
4×430.0634.53
top 2.9%479 / 19,354
5×555.401:03.05
top 3.5%297 / 9,537
7×72:48.183:05.04
top 7.4%201 / 3,236
6×61:56.302:00.20
top 9.7%346 / 4,262
Pyraminx4.617.08
top 10.9%2,887 / 29,168
Clock7.098.56
top 11.2%881 / 9,172
Megaminx1:04.231:07.66
top 12.2%847 / 8,026
Square-114.6119.31
top 15.6%1,061 / 6,846
Skewb4.998.84
top 18.1%2,896 / 19,164
3×3 Fewest Moves40 moves46.67
early days — 3 solves1,046 / 2,059

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

Indianapolis Cubes 2019: 13.31Cubing For Kyle 2019: 14.13Flag City Spring 2019: 12.70Battle for Toledo 2019: 11.32Flag City Fall 2019: 10.67UIUC Fall 2019: 10.19Indianapolis Cubes Winter 2019: 11.58Cubing Peoria 2020: 10.95Slow N Steady Spring 2022: 8.63Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 9.44CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2022: 9.09Mt. Prospect Open 2022: 7.53UIUC Fall 2022: 8.68Naperville Winter B 2022: 8.05Ohio State RPAC Cube Clash 2023: 9.30Indiana Finally Returns 2023: 8.53Miami in an Ohio Oxford 2023: 8.17The Blantucky Derby 2023: 8.37Little Giant Open 2023: 8.97CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2023: 7.87Bulldog Winter 2024: 7.78Circle City Cubing 2024: 9.02Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 8.59CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2024: 7.74Indiana Championship 2024: 7.35NxNationwide Lewis Center 2025: 8.10Chicagoland Newcomers 2025: 8.11Bowling Green 2025: 7.07Northern Kentucky 2025: 8.35Fun in Muncie 2025: 7.17CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2025: 7.17Ohio Championship 2025: 7.55Brown County Blitz 2026: 7.09Racing Kane 2026: 6.52CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2026: 7.65Hancock County NxNs 2026: 6.796.5214.1316 Mar 201926 Sep 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-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.52 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.40 away.

Targets move as he improves.