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Ben Gillespie

Pyraminx · top 16.1% of 129,321 all-time · competing since December 2021 · 2021GILL03

Ben Gillespie has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 5.45, set at Bluegrass Fall 2022, puts him in the top 16.1% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,269th in the United States. Across 4 competitions since December 2021, he has put 83 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.00 in December 2021 to 16.63, a 21% improvement. Ben has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 16.1% of 129,321 all-time
5.45
signature single · Bluegrass Fall 2022
83
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Pyraminx5.456.95
top 16.1%4,269 / 28,708
3×316.6319.04
top 29.8%16,380 / 59,724
Megaminx2:12.362:21.53
top 52.4%3,922 / 7,841
Skewb11.0614.12
top 61.1%11,267 / 18,907

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

Rocky Top 2021: 21.00Cubing in the Ville 2022: 16.63Bluegrass Fall 2022: 17.60Across the Woods Kentucky B 2023: 17.1416.6321.004 Dec 202117 Dec 2023

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 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.45 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 1.63 away.

Targets move as he improves.