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Ben Whitmore

2×2 · top 0.17% of 186,767 all-time · competing since July 2009 · 2009WHIT01

Ben Whitmore has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.75, set at Welwyn Garden City Open 2014, puts him in the top 0.17% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 17th in the United Kingdom. Until November 2011, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 54 competitions since July 2009, he has put 3,155 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.90 in July 2009 to 7.01, a 61% improvement. Ben has entered 54 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.17% of 186,767 all-time
0.75
signature single · Welwyn Garden City Open 2014
3,155
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
2×20.752.23
top 0.17%17 / 4,895
3×37.019.09
top 1.3%106 / 6,689
Pyraminx2.356.21
top 1.8%72 / 3,656
3×3 Fewest Moves23 moves29.33
top 3.0%20 / 372
4×431.8136.08
top 4.0%105 / 2,071
5×558.381:05.32
top 4.7%69 / 1,151
3×3 one-handed13.7617.30
top 5.7%112 / 1,851
Megaminx53.121:03.11
top 6.5%88 / 966
Square-111.1413.51
top 8.3%84 / 778
Skewb4.917.24
top 17.4%414 / 2,421
7×73:35.253:50.27
top 21.6%105 / 459
6×62:32.132:43.14
top 26.7%162 / 548
3×3 blindfolded1:40.361:59.62
top 26.7%115 / 311
Clock10.8412.27
top 29.3%389 / 1,232
3×3 Multi-Blind3 of 4 cubes · 32:12—
top 77.1%109 / 126
4×4 blindfolded16:43.0018:40.00
top 82.4%78 / 84
5×5 blindfolded45:03.00—
early days — 1 solve50 / 50

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

UK Masters 2009: 17.90UK Open 2009: 14.69UK Open 2010: 14.28UK Open 2011: 11.72Rapid Dash Open 2012: 10.90Weston-super-Mare 2012: 9.05UK Open 2012: 10.06Leicester Open 2013: 10.97Nottingham Open 2013: 10.40Guildford Open 2013: 10.91Cuthberts Open 2013: 7.75UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 8.26Nottingham Open 2014: 9.51Welwyn Garden City Open 2014: 8.52Nottingham Summer 2014: 7.73ABHC 2014: 9.27UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2014: 9.83Harrow Spring 2015: 8.64The Glorious North 2015: 7.28August Bank Holiday Competition 2015: 8.72UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 9.82Macclesfield Open 2016: 9.22August Bank Holiday Competition 2016: 8.82Birmingham Open 2016: 7.84Peterborough Open 2017: 7.36Newcastle-under-Lyme Open 2017: 7.80UK Championship 2017: 9.09Stratford-upon-Avon Open 2018: 7.92UK Championship 2018: 7.82Chester Open 2019: 8.64British Summer Open 2019: 8.19WCA World Championship 2019: 9.18UK Championship 2019: 8.21Manchester Open 2020: 9.13Farnworth Spring D 2022: 8.21Chester Spring 2022: 8.25Cheltenham Summer 2022: 8.63August Bank Holiday Cheltenham 2022: 8.05Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 8.01Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 8.29Crewe Spring 2024: 8.53Rubik's UK Championship 2024: 7.77Manchester January 2025: 8.46Manchester February 2025: 8.13Manchester Spring 2025: 7.66Crewe Spring 2025: 8.73Manchester June 2025: 8.63Rubik's UK Championship 2025: 8.17Manchester October 2025: 8.46Crewe May 2026: 7.01Kewbz UK Championship 2026: 7.057.0117.9011 Jul 200928 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 1.01 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.35 away.

Targets move as he improves.