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Benjamin Wong

3×3 · top 4.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2010 · 2010WONG01

Benjamin Wong has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.66, set at Toronto Summer 2012, puts him in the top 4.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 393rd in Canada. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since January 2010, he has put 700 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.13 in January 2010 to 8.66, a 55% improvement. Benjamin has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.1% of 284,439 all-time
8.66
signature single · Toronto Summer 2012
700
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×38.6610.39
top 4.1%393 / 10,392
2×22.194.18
top 6.1%397 / 7,173
5×51:01.211:03.73
top 6.2%70 / 1,499
3×3 one-handed15.9620.17
top 10.1%224 / 2,620
4×441.2144.16
top 13.5%341 / 3,118
3×3 Fewest Moves33 moves42.00
early days — 3 solves68 / 283
Pyraminx9.8013.02
top 51.4%2,471 / 4,858
3×3 blindfolded3:21.11—
top 58.4%206 / 351
Megaminx2:29.002:45.12
top 60.6%724 / 1,375
7×76:00.686:30.97
top 67.8%306 / 503

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

Toronto Open Winter 2010: 19.13Toronto Open Spring 2010: 19.97Toronto Open Summer 2010: 14.86Toronto Open Fall 2010: 16.33Toronto Open Winter 2011: 12.33Toronto Open Spring 2011: 12.61University of Guelph Open Spring 2011: 12.19canadianCUBING CUBEcentric 2011: 12.05Toronto Open Summer 2011: 10.38Canadian Open 2011: 10.72Toronto Open Winter 2012: 9.21Toronto Spring 2012: 8.81Toronto Summer 2012: 8.66Waterloo Open Fall 2012: 10.47Canadian Open 2013: 9.63Battle of Waterloo 2014: 10.04CanadianCUBING Fifty 2014: 8.99US Nationals 2014: 9.62South East Texas Open 2016: 9.65Space City Winter TX 2025: 10.378.6619.9730 Jan 20104 Jan 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.66 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.19 away.

Targets move as he improves.