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Benjamin Craven

3×3 · top 6.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2023 · 2023CRAV01

Benjamin Craven has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.50, set at Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025, puts him in the top 6.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,384th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since March 2023, he has put 642 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 80% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.83 in March 2023 to 9.50, a 31% improvement. Benjamin has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.1% of 284,439 all-time
9.50
signature single · Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025
642
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 80% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.5011.19
top 6.1%3,384 / 59,724
2×22.194.28
top 6.1%2,437 / 40,951
Clock6.298.11
top 8.3%647 / 8,927
Skewb3.725.46
top 9.1%1,392 / 18,907
4×440.3943.85
top 12.6%1,849 / 19,072
Pyraminx4.977.56
top 13.0%3,375 / 28,708
Megaminx1:17.431:28.89
top 20.2%1,384 / 7,841
5×51:22.321:43.02
top 21.0%1,627 / 9,401
3×3 blindfolded1:32.86—
top 24.2%492 / 2,092
Square-121.8231.06
top 32.1%2,076 / 6,743
3×3 one-handed25.2234.14
top 34.8%4,589 / 15,683
6×62:52.853:14.95
top 37.4%1,360 / 4,196
3×3 Fewest Moves40 moves55.00
top 48.3%1,031 / 2,040
7×75:24.045:41.57
top 58.0%1,719 / 3,184
3×3 Multi-Blind3 of 4 cubes · 33:52—
early days — 1 solve574 / 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

Mile High Megacomp 2023: 13.83Cubing In Creek 2023: 17.86The Art of the Cube Colorado 2023: 16.42CubingUSA Rocky Mountain Championship 2023: 13.55Happy Holidays Colorado 2023: 13.05Barely Awake Boulder 2024: 12.74Back to School Colorado 2024: 13.17Colorado Championship 2024: 11.17Centennial State Cube Off 2024: 11.09A Little Fun in Littleton Colorado 2025: 11.01DeNxNver 2025: 11.37Pueblo Puzzling 2025: 12.15Colorado Springs Spring 2025: 12.39Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 9.50Oredigger Open CO 2026: 10.01Longmont Open 2026: 9.539.5017.864 Mar 202313 Jun 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.

  • Evan Wilson — met in 143 rounds, finished ahead 18 times
  • Kian Cline — met in 132 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
  • Preston Hoing — met in 127 rounds, finished ahead 45 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.50 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.19 away.

Targets move as he improves.