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Benjamin Wei

3×3 · top 0.22% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2015 · 2015WEIB03

Benjamin Wei has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.42, set at Texas Championship 2024, puts him in the top 0.22% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 154th in the United States. Until April 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 55 competitions since November 2015, he has put 2,493 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.48 in November 2015 to 5.42, a 72% improvement. Benjamin has entered 55 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.22% of 284,439 all-time
5.42
signature single · Texas Championship 2024
2,493
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×35.427.05
top 0.22%154 / 59,724
7×71:51.701:57.74
top 0.26%10 / 3,184
6×61:15.851:21.59
top 0.34%18 / 4,196
5×543.4346.81
top 0.48%35 / 9,401
4×424.1027.14
top 0.52%91 / 19,072
Megaminx41.2146.31
top 1.9%138 / 7,841
3×3 one-handed11.1715.25
top 2.0%317 / 15,683
2×21.632.82
top 2.7%1,066 / 40,951
Square-110.9314.58
top 7.8%570 / 6,743

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

River Hill Fall 2015: 19.48Cube4Cam 2016: 13.03Xi'an Open 2016: 9.96Maryland 2017: 9.14Penn Cube Day Winter 2018: 9.06Incredible Pencil Mania 2018: 8.68Slow N Steady Summer 2018: 8.75TJHSST Fall 2018: 8.16Penn Cube Day Fall 2018: 7.35New Hope Open Winter 2019: 8.47CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 6.81CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 8.37Scranton Scramble 2020: 8.66Pittsburgh Fall 2021: 7.11Slow N Steady Spring 2022: 6.50CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022: 6.74Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 6.47Pittsburgh Summer B 2022: 6.02Diamond Bar September 2022: 7.10WCC Western Championship 2022: 7.41Cubing for Cancer RPV 2022: 6.88Pittsburgh Fall 2022: 6.64SacCubing XIII 2023: 7.06Circle City Turbocharged 2023: 6.90Virginia Re-Open Spring 2023: 6.57Give Back RPV 2023: 6.79Gonna Need a Bigger Cube SD 2023: 7.20Pride in Long Beach 2023: 7.16CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023: 6.27Jay House of Cubes 2023: 7.11CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 7.35Newark's On Track 2023: 6.46Pretzel Mania Summer 2023: 6.51Square-Fun in Bloomsburg 2023: 6.60Jurupa Valley Cubing Fall 2023: 6.23CubingUSA Rocky Mountain Championship 2023: 7.04New York New Year 2024: 7.04SacCubing XVI 2024: 5.94USC Cubing 2024: 6.42Happy Valley Spring 2024: 6.13Temecula Valley Spring 2024: 7.12Pennsylvania Championship 2024: 6.46CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2024: 6.79Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 6.22Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 6.52New York Championship 2024: 6.62Super Duper San Diego 2024: 6.19Texas Championship 2024: 5.42UCLA Spring 2025: 6.66Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.30UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025: 7.13NxNjoyable Sydney Gathering 2026: 6.23Temecula Valley Summer 2026: 6.57Temecula Valley Back To School 2026: 5.735.4219.4821 Nov 201522 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.

  • Evan Liu — met in 186 rounds, finished ahead 153 times
  • Zayn Khanani — met in 184 rounds, finished ahead 103 times
  • Daniel Karnaukh — met in 184 rounds, finished ahead 101 times

Next targets

  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.42 away.
  • A sub-1:00 6×6 single — 2 people have one; it is 15.85 away.

Targets move as he improves.