People · France
Benoît Bout
3×3 · top 15.9% of 288,433 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024BOUT01
Benoît Bout has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.55, set at Hurlubiks Cube Mouscron 2025, puts him in the top 15.9% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 815th in France. Across 4 competitions since March 2024, he has put 153 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 53% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. He has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | France | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 12.55 | 13.97 | top 15.9% | 815 / 4,823 | |
| Pyraminx | 6.44 | 10.15 | top 23.4% | 582 / 2,185 | |
| 2×2 | 4.20 | 5.81 | top 29.1% | 996 / 3,129 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 24.53 | 32.53 | top 33.0% | 495 / 1,508 | |
| 4×4 | 1:01.33 | 1:15.52 | top 38.0% | 679 / 1,839 | |
| Skewb | 7.65 | 13.82 | top 38.7% | 540 / 1,309 | |
| 5×5 | 3:56.96 | — | early days — 2 solves | 917 / 1,038 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 23 Mar 2024First competition: Brugge Beginners Open 2024. A 12.91 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Hurlubiks Cube Mouscron 2025 · 22 Feb 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Douvrin Open 2024 · 22 Jun 2024 — 1 personal best set
- HEM MariCubik Open 2024 · 19 May 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Brugge Beginners Open 2024 · 23 Mar 2024 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Bowen Xie (解博文) — met in 33 rounds, never finished ahead
- Rik De Cock — met in 31 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Aron De Vrieze — met in 30 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
Next targets
- A sub-12 3×3 single — 40,277 people have one; it is 0.55 away.
- A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 26,233 people have one; it is 0.44 away.
Targets move as he improves.