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Benjamin Craft

2×2 · top 4.5% of 189,179 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024CRAF01

Benjamin Craft has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.95, set at Flex in Lex 2026, puts him in the top 4.5% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,806th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 37 competitions since March 2024, he has put 903 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 86% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.35 in March 2024 to 9.77, a 56% improvement. Benjamin has entered 37 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 4.5% of 189,179 all-time
1.95
signature single · Flex in Lex 2026
903
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 86% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×21.953.38
top 4.5%1,806 / 41,674
3×39.7711.87
top 6.9%3,809 / 60,666
Skewb4.8610.90
top 17.1%2,746 / 19,164
4×445.5553.53
top 19.1%2,915 / 19,354
Pyraminx6.189.22
top 21.4%5,832 / 29,168
Clock11.2914.05
top 31.4%2,518 / 9,172
3×3 one-handed28.0629.98
top 42.2%5,738 / 15,900
5×52:08.512:21.45
top 54.7%4,689 / 9,537
Megaminx2:28.302:41.44
top 60.5%4,666 / 8,026
3×3 Fewest Moves46 moves58.67
top 68.7%1,439 / 2,059
Square-145.3656.28
top 71.5%4,757 / 6,846
6×66:26.82—
top 93.1%3,937 / 4,262
7×79:50.42—
early days — 1 solve3,186 / 3,236

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

Vanderbilt Spring 2024: 22.35Moonbow Mega Kentucky 2024: 22.33Bama Big Cubes 2024: 21.62CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2024: 21.58T-Town Showdown AL 2024: 22.40Oldham County Cubing 2024: 15.54CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2024: 15.14Solving at Sycamore TN 2024: 11.74Corinth Comic Con Cubing 2024: 12.28Indiana Championship 2024: 12.38Vanderbilt Winter 2025: 12.47Return of the Ville KY 2025: 11.56Cubing on the Plains at Auburn 2025: 10.36See Georgia: Cloudland Canyon A 2025: 9.85Alabama Crimson Cubing Spring 2025: 14.63Vanderbilt Winter 2026: 13.67CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2026: 13.64Scenic City Spring TN 2026: 14.02Cube Against Cancer Franklin 2026: 12.66Cookeville Cube Challenge 2026: 12.90GA Cubers Pride 2026: 11.75Cardinal Country KY Cubing 2026: 12.08Scenic City Summer TN 2026: 12.63Fort Payne Summer 2026: 11.864x4 Off US-40 IL 2026: 12.42Florida Championship 2026: 14.08Alabama Championship 2026: 10.00GA Cuber Jackets Fall 2026: 12.21Concordia Fall Foliage 2026: 9.77Marietta Monday Mini IV 2026: 11.42Flex in Lex 2026: 10.989.7722.409 Mar 202417 Oct 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 — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.95 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 1.77 away.

Targets move as he improves.