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Ben Wessels

3×3 · top 4.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2022 · 2022WESS03

Ben Wessels has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.67, set at Vancouver's on Tracks 2024, puts him in the top 4.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 394th in Canada. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 26 competitions since November 2022, he has put 701 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 74% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 42.31 in November 2022 to 8.67, an 80% improvement. Ben has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.1% of 284,439 all-time
8.67
signature single · Vancouver's on Tracks 2024
701
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 74% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×38.6710.93
top 4.1%394 / 10,392
2×22.163.25
top 5.9%381 / 7,173
Skewb3.503.80
top 7.8%152 / 2,907
3×3 one-handed15.0817.48
top 8.3%183 / 2,620
Pyraminx4.558.24
top 10.5%381 / 4,858
Clock10.6212.68
top 28.2%254 / 1,029
Square-126.7334.61
top 42.9%376 / 952
Megaminx2:20.752:33.92
top 56.7%656 / 1,375
5×52:25.28—
early days — 2 solves842 / 1,499

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

SnoCo Veteran's Weekend A 2022: 42.31Richmond Favourites 2023: 37.34Nanaimo Swing into Spring 2023: 31.35Vancouver Pride 2023: 22.18Canadian Championship 2023: 20.58Lucky Lynnwood 2023: 16.95UW or U Don't 2023: 13.01Canada's Best in the West 2024: 9.77Kenmore Mini C 2024: 13.37Richmond Rumble 2024: 11.44Bellingham Spring 2024: 12.08Vancouver's on Tracks 2024: 8.67CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2024: 12.40Tacoma Summer 2024: 10.85BC Championship 2024: 11.36Vancouver Southlands Sprint 2024: 11.76Cubing With Cold Hands Whistler 2024: 11.10Maple Ridge Favourites 2025: 11.51Coquitlam Crunch 2025: 10.64Surrey Monday Open 2025: 13.52Warm Up Vancouver 2025: 9.40Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 11.70White Rock's Back to Square-1 2025: 11.40Make Cutoff Maple Ridge 2025: 10.31Richmond Fall 2025: 11.02BC Championship 2026: 10.738.6742.3111 Nov 20227 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.

  • Kevin Lê — met in 112 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
  • Ethan Rusnak — met in 111 rounds, finished ahead 14 times
  • Peter Barnwell — met in 111 rounds, finished ahead 12 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.67 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.16 away.

Targets move as he improves.