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Benjamin Buchner

2×2 · top 0.72% of 186,767 all-time · competing since August 2018 · 2018BUCH03

Benjamin Buchner has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.08, set at New to Sherwood Park 2024, puts him in the top 0.72% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 46th in Canada. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since August 2018, he has put 716 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 62% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 40.90 in August 2018 to 9.02, a 78% improvement. Benjamin has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.72% of 186,767 all-time
1.08
signature single · New to Sherwood Park 2024
716
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 62% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
2×21.082.23
top 0.72%46 / 7,173
Pyraminx2.483.88
top 2.1%83 / 4,858
Skewb2.743.82
top 3.8%65 / 2,907
3×39.0211.79
top 4.9%472 / 10,392
Clock5.528.77
top 5.8%41 / 1,029
4×442.5851.86
top 15.2%384 / 3,118
3×3 blindfolded1:21.63—
top 20.1%60 / 351
Square-116.9722.60
top 20.9%176 / 952
Megaminx1:33.741:47.29
top 30.5%304 / 1,375
5×51:37.171:47.09
top 33.2%413 / 1,499
3×3 one-handed29.7739.54
top 46.1%1,060 / 2,620
3×3 Multi-Blind8 of 12 cubes · 56:47—
early days — 3 solves54 / 112
6×63:25.283:42.74
top 52.9%286 / 665
3×3 Fewest Moves44 moves—
early days — 3 solves182 / 283
7×76:06.667:01.64
top 69.4%317 / 503
5×5 blindfolded33:20.00—
early days — 1 solve23 / 30

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

Canada's Best in the West 2018: 40.90Sherwood Park Summer 2019: 24.60Sherwood Park Spring 2022: 13.92Spruce Grove Summer 2022: 14.73Edmonton Summer Twist 2022: 12.82Rockies Rager Fall 2022: 14.40Cubing Above the Dinosaurs 2023: 12.95Sherwood Park Summer 2023: 10.00Cubing Above the Dinosaurs 2024: 13.16New to Sherwood Park 2024: 10.94NA Stadium Series - Edmonton 2024: 9.02Solved Central Alberta 2024: 10.60Canadian Prairie Championship 2024: 9.47Alberta 10th Anniversary 2025: 10.62New to Edmonton A 2025: 9.43Edmonton River Valley Rumble 2025: 11.87Solved Central Alberta 2025: 11.61Edmonton Winter 2026: 10.64Red Deer Favourites 2026: 10.249.0240.9024 Aug 201814 Feb 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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.08 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.48 away.

Targets move as he improves.