People · United States
Benjamin Hicking
Clock · top 26.0% of 32,817 all-time · competing since September 2022 · 2022HICK06
Benjamin Hicking has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 10.21, set at Middleboro Cubikon 2023, puts him in the top 26.0% of the 32,817 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,055th in the United States. Across 12 competitions since September 2022, he has put 133 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 83% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 38.58 in February 2023 to 32.94, a 15% improvement. Benjamin has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clock | 10.21 | 11.68 | top 26.0% | 2,055 / 9,172 | |
| Pyraminx | 8.93 | 12.35 | top 44.2% | 12,890 / 29,168 | |
| 3×3 | 32.94 | 40.12 | top 67.5% | 41,249 / 60,666 | |
| Skewb | 13.51 | 28.09 | top 72.9% | 13,936 / 19,164 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 10 Sep 2022First competition: Amherst Open 2022.
Competitions
- Cardinal Cube Day 2024 · 24 Feb 2024
- Connecticut Winter 2024 · 6 Jan 2024
- CubingUSA New England Championship 2023 · 7 Oct 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Mystic Cubikon 2023 · 20 Aug 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Connecticut Spring 2023 · 13 May 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Middleboro Cubikon 2023 · 6 May 2023 — 1 personal best set
- PBs in Palisades 2023 · 15 Apr 2023
- Saint John's Scramble 2023 · 1 Apr 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Northampton Winter B 2023 · 26 Feb 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Fall River Cubikon 2023 · 5 Feb 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Naticube 2022 · 29 Oct 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Amherst Open 2022 · 10 Sep 2022
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.
- Samuel Hicking — met in 24 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
- Jacob Schwartz — met in 24 rounds, finished ahead once
- Ethan Zhuang — met in 23 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
Next targets
- A sub-10 Clock single — 8,178 people have one; it is 0.21 away.
- A sub-8 Pyraminx single — 47,369 people have one; it is 0.93 away.
Targets move as he improves.