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Benjamin Aalto

2×2 · top 5.6% of 189,179 all-time · competing since November 2024 · 2024AALT01

Benjamin Aalto has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.12, set at Rubik's German Nationals 2025, puts him in the top 5.6% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 235th in Germany. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since November 2024, he has put 546 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 18% around a typical one; 97% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His Skewb best has come down from 7.03 in November 2024 to 3.22, a 54% improvement. Benjamin has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 5.6% of 189,179 all-time
2.12
signature single · Rubik's German Nationals 2025
546
official solves on the record
18%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 97% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingGermany
2×22.123.62
top 5.6%235 / 2,931
3×39.5011.80
top 6.1%320 / 4,182
Skewb3.224.90
top 6.2%81 / 1,192
Pyraminx3.956.21
top 7.4%174 / 2,020
3×3 blindfolded59.241:06.75
top 12.8%45 / 350
3×3 one-handed17.3322.41
top 13.5%177 / 1,328
Square-114.2720.74
top 14.8%68 / 541
4×442.6351.77
top 15.3%278 / 1,966
3×3 Multi-Blind11 of 12 cubes · 50:04—
top 16.0%30 / 144
Clock10.7012.37
top 28.5%200 / 647
5×51:34.551:43.26
top 31.2%330 / 1,175
Megaminx1:39.741:57.58
top 34.6%261 / 798
4×4 blindfolded7:10.869:34.15
top 37.9%29 / 89
3×3 Fewest Moves44 moves—
early days — 2 solves222 / 343
6×65:00.895:38.87
top 81.8%462 / 595

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

Bremium Cubing 2024: 7.03German Newcomer Day 2025: 6.57Geselliges Gewürfel Göttingen 2025: 5.37Rubik's German Nationals 2025: 3.77Quick Q.bing Q.lisse 2026: 5.40Sleep & Solve Landsbro 2026: 3.23Rubik's German Nationals 2026: 3.32Bremium Mega Day 2026: 4.00Cubing Days Neuburg 2026: 4.35c't Open Hannover 2026: 3.223.227.032 Nov 202417 Oct 2026

Best single per competition, Skewb. 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 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.12 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 1.50 away.

Targets move as he improves.