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Ben Ridley

3×3 · top 1.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2016 · 2016RIDL01

Ben Ridley has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.19, set at Stevenage June 2024, puts him in the top 1.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 113th in the United Kingdom. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 59 competitions since August 2016, he has put 2,574 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 74% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 30.94 in August 2016 to 7.19, a 77% improvement. Ben has entered 59 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.6% of 284,439 all-time
7.19
signature single · Stevenage June 2024
2,574
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 74% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×37.1910.55
top 1.6%113 / 6,689
2×21.823.61
top 3.7%267 / 4,895
3×3 Multi-Blind21 of 21 cubes · 57:12—
top 4.4%9 / 126
3×3 one-handed13.3018.18
top 4.9%97 / 1,851
3×3 blindfolded34.3747.47
top 5.3%22 / 311
Skewb3.387.86
top 7.0%156 / 2,421
4×435.9943.67
top 7.7%183 / 2,071
5×51:08.411:18.39
top 10.5%138 / 1,151
4×4 blindfolded4:14.284:56.14
top 16.3%24 / 84
5×5 blindfolded8:47.49—
early days — 3 solves12 / 50
7×73:26.713:41.15
top 18.6%83 / 459
6×62:20.432:29.00
top 20.7%124 / 548
Megaminx1:20.641:29.12
top 22.3%266 / 966
Pyraminx6.339.20
top 22.5%882 / 3,656
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves38.00
top 30.0%132 / 372
Clock11.1511.92
top 30.8%407 / 1,232
Square-124.2227.22
top 37.3%331 / 778

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

Singapore 333 Cube Competition 2016: 30.94UK Championship 2016: 22.56Tårnby Cube Træf 2016: 18.96Birmingham Open 2016: 19.79Manchester Open 2017: 16.25Singapore Rubik's Cube Competition 2017: 15.84Peterborough Open 2017: 17.84Newcastle-under-Lyme Open 2017: 15.06Crawley Open 2017: 13.15Irish Championship 2017: 10.26London Open 2017: 12.96World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 14.53August Bank Holiday Competition 2017: 13.71UK Championship 2017: 12.36Weston-super-Mare Open 2017: 11.72Manchester Open 2018: 11.41Guildford Open 2018: 10.11High Wycombe Open 2018: 12.33Hastings Open 2018: 10.49Tårnby Cube Træf 2018: 11.52August Bank Holiday Competition 2018: 11.94UK Championship 2018: 10.06Cambridge Open 2018: 9.65Lincoln Open 2019: 10.48UK Championship 2019: 10.39Suffolk Summer 2023: 9.33Kent Autumn 2023: 9.87Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 11.83Wiltshire December 2023: 8.82Stevenage January 2024: 9.27Wiltshire March 2024: 10.13Stevenage May 2024: 8.63Stevenage June 2024: 7.19Stevenage July 2024: 9.93Lincolnshire Summer 2024: 9.23Stevenage August 2024: 10.04Kewbz UK Open 2024: 10.07Wiltshire September 2024: 10.96Ipswich Autumn 2024: 8.39Rubik's UK Championship 2024: 11.03Stevenage December 2024: 8.51Norwich Winter 2024: 8.92Stevenage January 2025: 10.42Stevenage March 2025: 10.29Stevenage April 2025: 9.50Peterborough Odd Day 2025: 10.11Stevenage June 2025: 10.22Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 10.24Stevenage July 2025: 9.63Rubik's UK Championship 2025: 10.52Stevenage September 2025: 9.04Stevenage October 2025: 9.15Stevenage 10th Anniversary 2025: 9.79Stevenage January 2026: 11.33Stevenage May 2026: 12.04Hampshire Summer 2026: 8.68Kewbz UK Championship 2026: 9.847.1930.9427 Aug 201628 Aug 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 — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.19 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.82 away.

Targets move as he improves.