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Benjamin Li

3×3 · top 0.47% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2019 · 2019LIBE01

Benjamin Li has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.97, set at SnoCo Has Too Much 3x3 2023, puts him in the top 0.47% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 309th in the United States. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 28 competitions since December 2019, he has put 676 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.42 in December 2019 to 5.97, a 68% improvement. Benjamin has entered 28 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.47% of 284,439 all-time
5.97
signature single · SnoCo Has Too Much 3x3 2023
676
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×35.978.24
top 0.47%309 / 59,724
2×22.353.18
top 7.5%2,957 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed15.0421.39
top 8.2%1,095 / 15,683
Square-111.4713.99
top 8.8%628 / 6,743
4×437.8342.30
top 9.6%1,437 / 19,072
Clock18.8620.74
top 61.3%5,178 / 8,927

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

AZCubing Winter 2019: 18.42Welcome Back Portland 2022: 8.68Bothell Spring 2022: 8.15BC Cubing Springback A 2022: 8.67Odd Seattle Summer 2022: 8.86Cloverdale Open 2022: 8.01SnoCo Favorites 2022: 8.22Oregon Championship 2022: 8.63Bellevue Cubing for Children's 2022: 8.97New Kent On The Block 2022: 8.61SnoCo Veteran's Weekend A 2022: 8.45Tri Cities Fall 2022: 7.30Sleepless in Seattle 2023: 8.35Central Washington Evens 2023: 8.07Washington Championship 2023: 8.06Cubing on Par B 2023: 8.64Lakewood Spring 2023: 7.44BC Spring Solving A 2023: 7.94Kent Spring 2023: 7.95Richmond Summer Open 2023: 7.51SnoCo Has Too Much 3x3 2023: 5.97Lucky Lynnwood 2023: 7.30Salem Spooktacular 2023: 7.36CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2024: 8.36Bellevue Cubing Afternoon - Highlands 2024: 7.46Warmup for Worlds Olympia 2025: 7.14Kent Spring 2025: 7.51Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 7.805.9718.4221 Dec 20193 Jul 2025

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 0.97 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.35 away.

Targets move as he improves.