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Benjamin Sintes

3×3 · top 6.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2007 · 2007SINT01

Benjamin Sintes has been competing for 19 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.72, set at Nantes Open 2008, puts him in the top 6.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 365th in France. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 33 competitions since August 2007, he has put 1,095 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 79% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.68 in August 2007 to 9.72, a 34% improvement. Benjamin has entered 33 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.7% of 284,439 all-time
9.72
signature single · Nantes Open 2008
1,095
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 79% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFrance
3×39.7212.74
top 6.7%365 / 4,746
2×22.554.26
top 9.4%356 / 3,074
4×441.3452.78
top 13.7%266 / 1,817
Pyraminx5.7110.23
top 17.9%443 / 2,148
3×3 Fewest Moves33 moves—
top 23.4%123 / 367
3×3 one-handed22.2125.96
top 26.6%421 / 1,490
5×52:02.222:20.03
top 50.6%463 / 1,024
Square-11:26.51—
early days — 1 solve499 / 540

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

Swedish Open 2007: 14.68World Rubik's Cube Championship 2007: 17.41Lyon Winter Open 2007: 13.50Montpellier Open 2008: 13.30French Open 2008: 13.80French Championship 2008: 12.69Nantes Open 2008: 9.72Italian Open 2008: 13.44Toulouse Summer Open 2008: 12.15European Championship 2008: 13.15Toronto Open Fall 2008: 13.25Swiss Open 2009: 13.80Belgian Open 2009: 13.16French Open 2009: 13.40French Championship 2009: 14.30Lyon Spring Open 2009: 12.06Dauphiné Open 2009: 12.47World Rubik's Cube Championship 2009: 11.33Toulouse Open 2010: 10.63Montpellier Open 2010: 11.65French Championship 2010: 12.18European Rubik's Cube Championship 2010: 10.93Naoned Open 2010: 10.31French Championship 2011: 11.40French Championship 2012: 12.52Champagne Summer Open 2013: 13.16Cannes Open 2014: 14.15Champagne Summer Open 2014: 12.28Champagne Open 2015: 11.99Champagne Open 2016: 13.46Champagne Open 2017: 15.52Champagne Open 2018: 12.78Champagne Open 2019: 13.409.7217.4125 Aug 20077 Sep 2019

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.72 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.55 away.

Targets move as he improves.