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Benoit Formet

3×3 · top 35.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2016 · 2016FORM01

Benoit Formet has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 18.44, set at Barby Cube 2024, puts him in the top 35.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,619th in France. Across 4 competitions since November 2016, he has put 40 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 29.88 in November 2016 to 18.44, a 38% improvement. Benoit has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 35.5% of 284,439 all-time
18.44
signature single · Barby Cube 2024
40
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFrance
3×318.4421.29
top 35.5%1,619 / 4,746
2×25.566.33
top 46.0%1,435 / 3,074

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

Montbéliard Open 2016: 29.88Chelles Open 2017: 26.08World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 19.45Barby Cube 2024: 18.4418.4429.881 Nov 201618 May 2024

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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 3.44 away.
  • A sub-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.56 away.

Targets move as he improves.