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Benjamin Hume Reeds
Pyraminx · top 20.2% of 130,891 all-time · competing since May 2025 · 2025REED03
Benjamin Hume Reeds has been competing for a year. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 6.02, set at Puzzles in Pottsville Spring 2025, puts him in the top 20.2% of the 130,891 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5,500th in the United States. Across 6 competitions since May 2025, he has put 100 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.03 in May 2025 to 19.22, a 13% improvement. Benjamin has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyraminx | 6.02 | 13.86 | top 20.2% | 5,500 / 29,168 | |
| Skewb | 6.96 | 9.64 | top 33.4% | 5,685 / 19,164 | |
| 3×3 | 19.22 | 22.11 | top 37.8% | 21,649 / 60,666 | |
| Clock | 15.62 | 17.41 | top 50.4% | 4,232 / 9,172 | |
| 4×4 | 1:16.90 | 1:25.60 | top 53.4% | 9,196 / 19,354 | |
| 2×2 | 6.69 | 8.96 | top 57.8% | 24,118 / 41,674 | |
| Square-1 | 57.57 | — | top 82.1% | 5,561 / 6,846 |
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
- 24 May 2025First sub-20 3×3: 19.22 at Puzzles in Pottsville Spring 2025.
- 10 May 2025First competition: UMBC Spring 2025. A 22.03 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- UMBC Winter 2026 · 14 Feb 2026 — 1 personal best set
- UMBC Fall 2025 · 18 Oct 2025
- Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2025 · 27 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025 · 30 Aug 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Puzzles in Pottsville Spring 2025 · 24 May 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- UMBC Spring 2025 · 10 May 2025
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.
- Hassan Khanani — met in 21 rounds, never finished ahead
- Daniel Greigg — met in 18 rounds, never finished ahead
- Makai Guay — met in 18 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 26,233 people have one; it is 0.02 away.
- A sub-6 Skewb single — 19,128 people have one; it is 0.96 away.
Targets move as he improves.