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Benton Tolley

Pyraminx · top 3.8% of 129,321 all-time · competing since February 2023 · 2023TOLL02

Benton Tolley has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 3.05, set at Westport Fall 2025, puts him in the top 3.8% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,013th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since February 2023, he has put 584 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 93% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.06 in February 2023 to 9.81, a 39% improvement. Benton has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 3.8% of 129,321 all-time
3.05
signature single · Westport Fall 2025
584
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 93% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Pyraminx3.055.38
top 3.8%1,013 / 28,708
Clock5.348.62
top 5.3%416 / 8,927
3×3 blindfolded36.0038.36
top 5.8%113 / 2,092
3×39.8112.30
top 6.9%3,805 / 59,724
2×22.713.56
top 11.0%4,349 / 40,951
Square-114.8818.78
top 16.2%1,095 / 6,743
Skewb4.886.76
top 17.2%2,729 / 18,907
5×51:24.271:37.50
top 22.6%1,751 / 9,401
4×448.8852.32
top 23.3%3,548 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed22.5831.86
top 27.6%3,563 / 15,683
3×3 Fewest Moves39 moves41.33
top 44.7%969 / 2,040
Megaminx2:02.532:20.12
top 47.2%3,490 / 7,841
4×4 blindfolded9:18.84—
early days — 1 solve227 / 440
3×3 Multi-Blind5 of 7 cubes · 26:19—
early days — 2 solves428 / 731
5×5 blindfolded23:32.00—
early days — 1 solve158 / 218
7×76:17.53—
early days — 2 solves2,215 / 3,184
6×64:44.44—
early days — 3 solves3,114 / 4,196

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

Garden City Winter 2023: 16.06Northampton Winter B 2023: 17.50Cubing in Cambridge 2023: 18.51Cape Cod 2023: 13.32Winchester Weeknights I 2023: 17.11CubingUSA New England Championship 2023: 11.82Loon Cubikon 2023: 11.39Cubing at the Y - Stoughton 2024: 12.88Lexing-not-a-ton of NxNs 2024: 14.03Loon Cubikon 2024: 11.32WPI Spring 2025: 12.78CubingUSA New England Championship 2025: 11.98Westport Fall 2025: 12.70Ipswich Fall 2025: 9.81Westport Summer 2026: 9.969.8118.515 Feb 202327 Jun 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-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.05 away.
  • A sub-5 Clock single — 1,421 people have one; it is 0.34 away.

Targets move as he improves.