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Benjamin Smith

3×3 · top 68.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2019 · 2019SMIT12

Benjamin Smith has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 33.49, set at Cuber Jackets Fall 2022, puts him in the top 68.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 41,190th in the United States. Across 8 competitions since March 2019, he has put 65 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 9 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 51.44 in March 2019 to 33.49, a 35% improvement. Benjamin has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 68.3% of 284,439 all-time
33.49
signature single · Cuber Jackets Fall 2022
65
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×333.4934.49
top 68.3%41,190 / 59,724
2×213.4814.84
top 87.9%36,518 / 40,951
Pyraminx20.2425.47
top 93.2%27,263 / 28,708

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

Terminus 2019: 51.44Peach State 2019: 53.07Georgia Goobers 2019: 49.28Where's Loganville 2019: 40.50Rocky The Ram Cubes 2019: 45.26GA Cubers Sunset 2019: 40.94Big Cubes for Dunwoody 2020: 45.25Cuber Jackets Fall 2022: 33.4933.4953.0730 Mar 201929 Oct 2022

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

  • 30 Mar 2019First competition: Terminus 2019. A 51.44 3×3 single to start from.

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-30 3×3 single — 177,856 people have one; it is 3.49 away.
  • A sub-12 2×2 single — 157,609 people have one; it is 1.48 away.

Targets move as he improves.