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Ben Meier

3×3 · top 4.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2023 · 2023MEIE04

Ben Meier has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.04, set at Cubing-on-Hudson PM 2024, puts him in the top 4.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,771st in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since November 2023, he has put 358 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 20% around a typical one; 99% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. That figure sets aside his 8 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 28.35 in November 2023 to 9.04, a 68% improvement. Ben has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.9% of 284,439 all-time
9.04
signature single · Cubing-on-Hudson PM 2024
358
official solves on the record
20%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 99% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.0411.77
top 4.9%2,771 / 59,724
2×22.693.73
top 10.8%4,258 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed16.3623.77
top 11.0%1,450 / 15,683
4×442.7649.33
top 15.4%2,330 / 19,072
Clock8.0913.31
top 15.6%1,192 / 8,927
Pyraminx5.729.98
top 18.0%4,763 / 28,708
5×51:22.471:44.63
top 21.1%1,637 / 9,401
6×62:47.823:02.57
top 35.0%1,257 / 4,196
Skewb8.279.27
top 43.3%7,606 / 18,907
Square-129.0641.85
top 47.6%3,103 / 6,743
7×75:01.985:15.61
top 51.2%1,488 / 3,184
Megaminx2:11.63—
top 52.0%3,895 / 7,841

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

Hudson Valley 2023: 28.35Cubes on the Bayside Winter 2024: 14.83Cubes on the Bayside Spring 2024: 14.42Saratoga Springs Newcomers 2024: 13.62Edgemont Cubing 2024: 13.70Spring into Summit 2024: 10.14North Jersey Speedsolving A 2024: 11.80Newark Academy Spring 2024: 12.64Westport Summer 2024: 10.28Hudson Valley Summer 2024: 10.69Cubing-on-Hudson PM 2024: 9.04Flushing Glow AM 2024: 9.53Long Island Winter Solstice 2024: 10.32Flushing Glow Open PM 2025: 9.06Liberty Science Center Open B 2026: 9.929.0428.3519 Nov 20231 Mar 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.04 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.69 away.

Targets move as he improves.