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Benjamin Christie

3×3 · top 0.38% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2014 · 2014CHRI04

Benjamin Christie has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.82, set at CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2025, puts him in the top 0.38% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 260th in the United States. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 65 competitions since August 2014, he has put 2,678 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.54 in August 2014 to 5.82, a 72% improvement. Benjamin has entered 65 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.38% of 284,439 all-time
5.82
signature single · CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2025
2,678
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 57% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×35.827.77
top 0.38%260 / 59,724
4×424.6428.30
top 0.62%107 / 19,072
2×21.132.81
top 0.85%358 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed9.9215.30
top 1.0%157 / 15,683
Skewb2.193.62
top 1.9%278 / 18,907
5×553.9157.18
top 3.0%244 / 9,401
3×3 Fewest Moves24 moves28.00
top 4.0%103 / 2,040
Square-19.5715.41
top 5.4%392 / 6,743
6×61:49.231:52.72
top 6.9%237 / 4,196
7×72:52.243:03.00
top 8.5%232 / 3,184
Pyraminx5.037.20
top 13.4%3,482 / 28,708
Clock8.3710.13
top 16.9%1,290 / 8,927
Megaminx1:13.681:23.34
top 17.8%1,206 / 7,841
3×3 blindfolded1:48.812:01.90
top 29.6%608 / 2,092
3×3 Multi-Blind6 of 7 cubes · 43:48—
top 38.1%287 / 731

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

US Nationals 2014: 20.54Starlight Open 2014: 23.93River Hill Summer 2014: 21.50Slow n Steady Fall 2014: 19.53Florida Feast 2014: 19.14River Hill Winter 2015: 11.44Johns Hopkins Winter 2015: 12.64Virginia Open Spring 2015: 14.90Slow n Steady Spring 2015: 12.25US Nationals 2015: 11.54Slow n Steady Fall 2015: 9.95Virginia Open Fall 2015: 9.25River Hill Fall 2015: 9.78Florida Feast 2015: 8.14Slow N Steady Winter 2016: 10.84ODU Big Blue Spring 2016: 8.63Severna Park Spring 2016: 8.35Slow N Steady Spring 2016: 7.54Slow N Steady Fall 2016: 8.83Princeton Fall 2016: 7.32Severna Park Fall 2016: 7.69TJHSST Fall 2016: 8.16ODU Big Blue Winter 2016: 7.87Virginia Open Winter 2017: 8.33Virginia Open Spring 2017: 8.23Slow N Steady Summer 2017: 7.33CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 8.36Severna Park Summer 2017: 7.52Rally In The Valley 2017: 7.36ODU Big Blue Fall 2017: 5.87TJHSST Fall 2017: 7.62Severna Park Showdown 2017: 7.29Northern Neck Winter 2018: 7.53Slow N Steady Winter 2018: 8.78RVA Spring 2018: 7.59Northern Neck Winter 2019: 8.31Gobbler Cube Day Winter 2019: 6.14VES Spring 2019: 7.43CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 8.54Gobbler Cube Day Fall 2019: 8.09Northern Neck Winter 2020: 8.23Cajun Cube Clash 2024: 6.82UMBC Fall 2024: 6.87CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2024: 6.80CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2024: 7.05Appalachian Highlands TN 2024: 7.64Charlotte Winter 2025: 6.12Cubing with the Cougars WV 2025: 6.61Queen City NC 2025: 6.88Cubes in the Mountains WV 2025: 6.85Virginia Always Open Spring 2025: 6.88Gobbler Cube Day Spring at VT 2025: 7.12CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2025: 5.82CubingUSA Southern Championship 2025: 7.54Virginia Beach Fall 2025: 6.62Baton Rouge Winter 2026: 6.77Fredericksburg Winter PM 2026: 7.21Gobbler Cube Day Winter at VT 2026: 6.67Welcome to Washington D.C. 2026: 7.36Virginia Beach Spring 2026: 7.84Magnolia State Cubing 2026: 6.685.8223.931 Aug 201430 May 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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.82 away.
  • A sub-20 4×4 single — 42 people have one; it is 4.64 away.

Targets move as he improves.