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Benson Kim

Square-1 · top 0.099% of 25,272 all-time · competing since March 2023 · 2023KIMB02

Benson Kim has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Square-1: a personal-best single of 4.46, set at Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026, puts him in the top 0.099% of the 25,272 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 13th in the United States. Until April 2022, no official Square-1 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 47 competitions since March 2023, he has put 1,881 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.37 in March 2023 to 6.01, a 36% improvement. Benson has entered 47 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Square-1
best event — top 0.099% of 25,272 all-time
4.46
signature single · Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026
1,881
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Square-14.466.85
top 0.099%13 / 6,743
3×36.018.18
top 0.49%324 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed11.6213.24
top 2.5%405 / 15,683
2×21.663.48
top 2.9%1,121 / 40,951
4×431.2938.08
top 3.7%592 / 19,072
5×558.541:11.10
top 4.8%394 / 9,401
Pyraminx3.475.09
top 5.3%1,394 / 28,708
Skewb3.105.10
top 5.5%849 / 18,907
6×62:05.442:20.13
top 13.4%493 / 4,196
7×73:24.213:36.83
top 17.8%500 / 3,184
Clock10.1610.94
top 25.9%1,988 / 8,927
Megaminx2:03.132:34.16
top 47.5%3,521 / 7,841

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

Virginia Beach Spring 2023: 9.37Richmond Spring 2023: 8.54Slow N Steady Spring 2023: 10.46ODU Big Blue Spring 2023: 9.32Cougar Qualifier 2023: 8.79CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 8.05Virginia Beach Fall 2023: 8.26Slow N Steady Fall 2023: 9.54Virginia Championship 2023: 9.50MoCo Cubing Winter 2024: 8.26NoVa Cube Winter 2024: 8.85Cubing in the Lion's Den 2024: 7.28ODU Big Blue Winter 2024: 7.75New-Cumberland County 2024: 8.38Slow N Steady Spring 2024: 7.65Bethesda Summer Showdown 2024: 7.48Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 7.73Bull City Summer NC 2024: 8.55Gaithersburg Back to School 2024: 7.91CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2024: 6.48Colonial Cube Clash VA 2024: 6.01Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2024: 7.60River Hill Fall 2024: 8.04Baton Rouge Winter B 2025: 7.66Bethesda Winter Wonderland 2025: 7.41Charlotte Winter 2025: 6.74PA-retzel Mania Winter 2025: 7.95Front Royal Spring 2025: 8.20Gobbler Cube Day Spring at VT 2025: 7.80River Hill Spring 2025: 7.18UMBC Spring 2025: 7.27Colonial Cube Clash VA Summer 2025: 6.79Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 7.22Virginia Championship 2025: 7.86UMBC Fall 2025: 7.68Wide Moves & Waterslides CT 2026: 6.91Fredericksburg Winter PM 2026: 7.57Gobbler Cube Day Winter at VT 2026: 7.15Williamsburg Open Spring 2026: 6.27Virginia Beach Spring 2026: 7.86RVA Spring 2026: 7.32Colonial Cube Clash VA 2026: 8.00Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 8.33Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026: 6.286.0110.4611 Mar 202314 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-4 Square-1 single — 11 people have one; it is 0.46 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.01 away.

Targets move as he improves.