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Ben Mortlock
3×3 · top 4.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2018 · 2018MORT02
Ben Mortlock has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.94, set at CubingUSA Oregon Championship 2019, puts him in the top 4.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,647th in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 14 competitions since August 2018, he has put 310 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 87% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 40.17 in August 2018 to 8.94, a 78% improvement. Ben has entered 14 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 8.94 | 12.77 | top 4.7% | 2,647 / 59,724 | |
| 2×2 | 2.18 | 3.84 | top 6.0% | 2,413 / 40,951 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.60 | 12.70 | top 10.8% | 2,824 / 28,708 | |
| Skewb | 6.86 | 9.89 | top 32.5% | 5,444 / 18,907 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 28.56 | 38.26 | top 43.3% | 5,847 / 15,683 | |
| 4×4 | 1:26.85 | 1:45.39 | top 61.3% | 10,691 / 19,072 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 8 Mar 2019First sub-10 3×3: 8.94 at CubingUSA Oregon Championship 2019.
- 8 Mar 2019Three personal bests in one day at CubingUSA Oregon Championship 2019.
- 12 Jan 2019First sub-15 3×3: 13.77 at PDX Cubing for Causes 2019.
- 12 Jan 2019Three personal bests in one day at PDX Cubing for Causes 2019.
- 10 Nov 2018First sub-20 3×3: 18.27 at Atomic Cubing Fall 2018.
- 10 Nov 2018Three personal bests in one day at Atomic Cubing Fall 2018.
Competitions
- AZCubing Winter 2019 · 21 Dec 2019
- Lincoln City 2019 · 11 May 2019
- Puget Sound Spring 2019 · 4 May 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Rose City 2019 · 20 Apr 2019
- Atomic Cubing Spring 2019 · 6 Apr 2019
- CubingUSA Oregon Championship 2019 · 8 Mar 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- West Seattle Favorites 2019 · 2 Mar 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Oregon State 2019 · 26 Jan 2019 — 1 personal best set
- PDX Cubing for Causes 2019 · 12 Jan 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- Puget Sound NxNxN 2018 · 8 Dec 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- Atomic Cubing Fall 2018 · 10 Nov 2018 — 3 personal bests set
- Yakima Valley Cubing Fall 2018 · 13 Oct 2018 — 1 personal best set
- Hillsboro Open 2018 · 15 Sep 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2018 · 10 Aug 2018
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.
- Sameer Aggarwal — met in 57 rounds, finished ahead once
- Tripp Peters — met in 54 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
- Max Siauw — met in 52 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.94 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.18 away.
Targets move as he improves.