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Ben Smith

Pyraminx · top 2.9% of 129,321 all-time · competing since February 2023 · 2023SMIT07

Ben Smith has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 2.78, set at Colonial Cube Clash VA 2024, puts him in the top 2.9% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 785th in the United States. Until October 2010, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since February 2023, he has put 622 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 38.86 in April 2023 to 10.54, a 73% improvement. Ben has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 2.9% of 129,321 all-time
2.78
signature single · Colonial Cube Clash VA 2024
622
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Pyraminx2.784.72
top 2.9%785 / 28,708
3×310.5412.86
top 9.1%4,966 / 59,724
2×22.643.77
top 10.3%4,057 / 40,951
Clock7.328.39
top 12.2%935 / 8,927
Skewb4.536.02
top 14.7%2,294 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed22.6926.41
top 27.9%3,601 / 15,683
Megaminx1:34.171:46.10
top 30.8%2,168 / 7,841
4×455.951:03.74
top 31.9%5,060 / 19,072
5×51:55.592:04.65
top 46.4%3,844 / 9,401
6×65:45.43—
early days — 3 solves3,674 / 4,196

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

Richmond Spring 2023: 38.86ODU Big Blue Spring 2023: 37.72Hobcaw Cubing 2023: 21.08Virginia Beach Fall 2023: 15.13Virginia Championship 2023: 19.86Virginia Still-Open Winter 2024: 18.29ODU Big Blue Winter 2024: 16.26Cubing at Carson 2024: 16.88Concord Summer 2024: 18.47Bull City Summer NC 2024: 12.39Colonial Cube Clash VA 2024: 15.36NCSU Wolfpack 2024: 15.45Solving in Savannah 2025: 14.26Charlotte Winter 2025: 13.26Gobbler Cube Day Spring at VT 2025: 15.22North Carolina Championship 2025: 14.18Virginia Championship 2025: 13.82ODU Big Blue Open 2025: 13.20NCSU Wolfpack 2025: 10.54Wrightsville Beach Bash 2026: 11.1010.5438.868 Apr 202311 Jan 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-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.78 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.54 away.

Targets move as he improves.