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Benjamin J. Dunn

2×2 · top 0.23% of 186,767 all-time · competing since October 2023 · 2023DUNN09

Benjamin J. Dunn has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.80, set at Kansas Championship 2025, puts him in the top 0.23% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 99th in the United States. Until November 2011, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since October 2023, he has put 1,135 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.55 in October 2023 to 5.75, a 58% improvement. Benjamin has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.23% of 186,767 all-time
0.80
signature single · Kansas Championship 2025
1,135
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×20.801.27
top 0.23%99 / 40,951
3×35.757.01
top 0.35%233 / 59,724
Pyraminx1.983.14
top 1.1%311 / 28,708
Clock3.314.11
top 1.2%116 / 8,927
5×548.8355.51
top 1.5%124 / 9,401
4×428.6831.44
top 2.1%349 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed11.7114.69
top 2.6%418 / 15,683
Megaminx47.1052.65
top 3.9%275 / 7,841
Skewb2.934.48
top 4.7%725 / 18,907
6×61:42.991:48.60
top 4.9%166 / 4,196
7×72:40.332:42.18
top 5.6%150 / 3,184
Square-111.3214.17
top 8.5%611 / 6,743
3×3 Fewest Moves38 moves—
early days — 1 solve879 / 2,040
3×3 blindfolded6:07.11—
early days — 1 solve1,818 / 2,092

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

KCKC 3 Cubing for Cake 2023: 13.55Going Fast in Grandview 2024: 9.92K-State Cubing Spring 2024: 9.57KCKC 5 Fast and Furious 2024: 9.48KCKC 6 Cubing for Cake 2024: 6.98Wichita Art Museum 2025: 7.02Doing Time in Leavenworth 2025: 7.25Kansas Championship 2025: 5.75Lawrence Summer 2025: 6.33Kansas Air Capital Cubing 2025: 6.12Wichita Art Museum 2026: 7.087x7 Off I-70 MO 2026: 7.08Wichita Air Capital Cubing 2026: 6.14Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 6.33Missouri Championship 2026: 6.215.7513.5521 Oct 20237 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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.75 away.
  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.98 away.

Targets move as he improves.