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Ben Hitz

Clock · top 4.4% of 32,817 all-time · competing since March 2022 · 2022HITZ01

Ben Hitz has been competing for 5 years. Their best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 5.00, set at Tacoma Fall 2026, puts them in the top 4.4% of the 32,817 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 363rd in the United States. Until April 2015, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since March 2022, they have put 605 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, their 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 90% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Their 3×3 best has come down from 12.91 in March 2022 to 10.20, a 21% improvement. Ben has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 4.4% of 32,817 all-time
5.00
signature single · Tacoma Fall 2026
605
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 90% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Clock5.006.84
top 4.4%363 / 9,172
3×310.2011.28
top 8.1%4,508 / 60,666
2×22.923.95
top 13.4%5,342 / 41,674
3×3 one-handed18.4422.42
top 16.3%2,136 / 15,900
Megaminx1:19.141:29.89
top 21.2%1,489 / 8,026
Pyraminx6.459.64
top 23.5%6,455 / 29,168
Skewb5.759.84
top 23.9%3,908 / 19,164
5×51:29.741:37.82
top 27.2%2,153 / 9,537
6×62:55.793:14.54
top 39.0%1,444 / 4,262
7×74:29.355:05.55
top 40.9%1,181 / 3,236
3×3 blindfolded4:21.37—
early days — 3 solves1,534 / 2,128

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

PLU NxN 2022: 12.91SnoCo Favorites 2022: 11.97SnoCo NxN 2022: 13.49New Kent On The Block 2022: 12.63Sleepless in Seattle 2023: 13.78Lakewood Spring 2023: 11.88Mill Creek 2023: 14.51Bothell Summer 2023: 12.18Oregon Championship 2023: 15.24Lucky Lynnwood 2023: 13.98Tacoma Winter Twisters 2024: 10.20Tacoma Summer 2024: 12.23Olympia Fall 2024: 11.04Lakewood Fall 2024: 10.56Tacoma Winter 2025: 14.15Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 12.48Lakewood Fall 2025: 12.00Tri Cities Spring 2026: 10.38Lakewood Spring 2026: 12.08Dawgs at Denny UW 2026: 12.80Rose City OR 2026: 10.27Don't DNF Dallas OR 2026: 11.86Tacoma Fall 2026: 11.0510.2015.2419 Mar 202210 Oct 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 their.

Next targets

  • A sub-4 Clock single — 754 people have one; it is 1.00 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,606 people have one; it is 0.20 away.

Targets move as they improves.