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Benjamin Schneider

3×3 · top 18.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2016 · 2016SCHN06

Benjamin Schneider has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.31, set at Machesney Park Fall 2025, puts him in the top 18.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 9,936th in the United States. Across 6 competitions since October 2016, he has put 103 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.10 in October 2016 to 13.31, a 22% improvement. Benjamin has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 18.5% of 284,439 all-time
13.31
signature single · Machesney Park Fall 2025
103
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×313.3116.46
top 18.5%9,936 / 59,724
2×23.618.01
top 21.6%8,439 / 40,951
4×41:06.271:15.39
top 43.2%7,100 / 19,072
Skewb9.7813.36
top 53.5%9,666 / 18,907
Clock20.3622.44
top 65.7%5,623 / 8,927
3×3 one-handed43.5756.17
top 70.0%10,053 / 15,683

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

Dixon Fall 2016: 17.10Dixon Spring 2017: 16.10Dixon Spring 2018: 14.85Madison Summer 2019: 14.11DeKalb Cubing Fall 2023: 13.51Machesney Park Fall 2025: 13.3113.3117.108 Oct 201615 Nov 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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.31 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.61 away.

Targets move as he improves.