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Benjamin Helton

Pyraminx · top 10.0% of 129,321 all-time · competing since January 2023 · 2023HELT01

Benjamin Helton has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 4.46, set at Cubing at the Y - Stoughton 2024, puts him in the top 10.0% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,604th in the United States. Across 28 competitions since January 2023, he has put 387 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 83% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 8 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 35.83 in April 2023 to 22.94, a 36% improvement. Benjamin has entered 28 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 10.0% of 129,321 all-time
4.46
signature single · Cubing at the Y - Stoughton 2024
387
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 83% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Pyraminx4.468.13
top 10.0%2,604 / 28,708
2×23.557.90
top 20.8%8,171 / 40,951
Skewb8.5615.62
top 45.4%8,014 / 18,907
3×322.9428.80
top 47.8%27,725 / 59,724
4×41:20.77—
top 56.5%9,727 / 19,072
5×52:37.81—
top 69.5%6,095 / 9,401
Clock28.3536.57
top 82.3%7,296 / 8,927
3×3 one-handed1:04.401:19.73
top 86.4%13,059 / 15,683
Megaminx3:43.28—
top 86.8%6,958 / 7,841

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

Cape Cod 2023: 35.83Middleboro Cubikon 2023: 42.53Return to Quabbin 2023: 38.73Quick in Quincy 2023: 33.17CubingUSA New England Championship 2023: 44.08Fall River Cubikon 2024: 37.88WPI Winter 2024: 41.70Cubing at the Y - Stoughton 2024: 45.46Saint John's Showdown 2024: 43.99Mystic Cubikon 2024: 42.40CubingUSA New England Championship 2024: 40.85Ocean State Cubikon 2024: 38.11Quick in Quincy 2024: 42.26Fall River Cubikon 2025: 43.86WPI Spring 2025: 28.65Saint John's Warm Up 2025: 35.14Mystic Cubikon 2025: 30.72Fitchburg Fall 2025: 34.76Ocean State Cubikon 2025: 33.27Brown Cubing Day 2026: 22.94Fitchburg Spring 2026: 29.12WPI Spring 2026: 27.07Saint John's Summer 2026: 25.03Mystic Cubikon 2026: 28.09Woonsocket Cubikon 2026: 26.8722.9445.4622 Apr 202316 Aug 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-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.46 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.55 away.

Targets move as he improves.