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Benjamin Ragan

3×3 · top 0.37% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2019 · 2019RAGA01

Benjamin Ragan has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.80, set at Canadian Prairie Championship 2024, puts him in the top 0.37% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 30th in Canada. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 51 competitions since January 2019, he has put 1,870 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 87% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.20 in January 2019 to 5.80, a 68% improvement. Benjamin has entered 51 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.37% of 284,439 all-time
5.80
signature single · Canadian Prairie Championship 2024
1,870
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 87% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×35.807.47
top 0.37%30 / 10,392
Pyraminx1.834.64
top 0.87%29 / 4,858
2×21.232.43
top 1.1%76 / 7,173
4×427.0831.14
top 1.4%31 / 3,118
5×549.8757.66
top 1.7%17 / 1,499
6×61:35.031:43.79
top 2.8%14 / 665
7×72:24.362:32.82
top 2.9%12 / 503
3×3 one-handed12.0113.72
top 3.0%65 / 2,620
Megaminx53.7859.22
top 6.8%52 / 1,375
Skewb3.656.41
top 8.6%174 / 2,907
Square-112.3616.52
top 10.6%84 / 952
3×3 blindfolded1:13.633:24.66
top 17.3%51 / 351
Clock9.7614.28
top 23.9%211 / 1,029
3×3 Fewest Moves34 moves38.67
top 26.7%80 / 283
3×3 Multi-Blind7 of 11 cubes · 57:48—
top 60.3%72 / 112

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

Edmonton New Year 2019: 18.20Canada's Wild West 2019: 14.82Foothills Final Fight 2019: 12.79Sherwood Park Summer 2019: 10.35Strathcona 2019: 11.08Solved Central Alberta 2019: 9.40Alberta 5th Anniversary 2020: 10.07Mudd Winter 2020: 9.13Sherwood Park Spring 2022: 8.19Spruce Grove Summer 2022: 7.62Sylvan Solves 2022: 7.86Cubing Above the Dinosaurs 2023: 7.45Odd Day in Sylvan 2023: 7.02Cubing Above the Dinosaurs 2024: 9.16Battle of Alberta 2024: 6.08New to Sherwood Park 2024: 6.71Mother Earth's Charter Spring 2024: 7.77Edmonton River Valley Rumble 2024: 8.57NA Stadium Series - Edmonton 2024: 9.47Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 7.97Cubing Among the Drumheller Dinosaurs 2024: 7.32Solved Central Alberta 2024: 7.12Airdrie NxNs 2024: 6.78Canadian Prairie Championship 2024: 5.80Alberta 10th Anniversary 2025: 6.49Battle of Alberta 2025: 6.82New to Edmonton B 2025: 7.13Peace Country Cubing 2025: 6.82Out in the Country Crossfield 2025: 5.88North Battleford Cube Day 2025: 6.81Southern Alberta Cubing 2025: 6.93Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 7.15Calgary Summer A 2025: 7.29Edmonton River Valley Rumble 2025: 7.61Solved Central Alberta 2025: 7.47Crossfield Fall 2025: 7.53Grand Slam of Cubing: Lloydminster 2025: 6.99Edmonton Winter 2026: 7.80Calgary Spring 2026: 6.79Battle of Alberta 2026: 5.90Canadian Prairie Championship 2026: 6.57Calgary Fall 2026: 7.505.8018.205 Jan 201929 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 0.80 away.
  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.83 away.

Targets move as he improves.