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Benton Tolley

3×3 blindfolded · top 3.1% of 12,334 all-time · competing since February 2023 · 2023TOLL02

Benton Tolley has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3 blindfolded: a personal-best single of 25.67, set at Shhherborn Summer 2026, puts him in the top 3.1% of the 12,334 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 63rd in the United States. Until June 2013, no official 3×3 blindfolded solve in the world had been that fast. Across 24 competitions since February 2023, he has put 622 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 94% of the 36,406 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 24 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 blindfolded
best event — top 3.1% of 12,334 all-time
25.67
signature single · Shhherborn Summer 2026
622
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 94% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 blindfolded25.6738.36
top 3.1%63 / 2,128
Pyraminx3.054.89
top 3.8%1,033 / 29,168
Clock5.348.62
top 5.3%426 / 9,172
3×39.8112.30
top 7.0%3,877 / 60,666
2×22.713.56
top 11.1%4,435 / 41,674
Square-114.8818.78
top 16.2%1,111 / 6,846
Skewb4.886.76
top 17.3%2,764 / 19,164
5×51:24.271:32.85
top 22.8%1,786 / 9,537
4×448.8852.32
top 23.4%3,605 / 19,354
3×3 one-handed22.5831.86
top 27.7%3,615 / 15,900
3×3 Fewest Moves39 moves41.33
top 44.8%982 / 2,059
Megaminx2:02.532:20.12
top 47.3%3,573 / 8,026
4×4 blindfolded9:18.84—
early days — 1 solve228 / 442
3×3 Multi-Blind5 of 7 cubes · 26:19—
early days — 3 solves432 / 740
5×5 blindfolded23:32.00—
early days — 1 solve159 / 220
7×76:17.53—
early days — 2 solves2,256 / 3,236
6×64:44.44—
early days — 3 solves3,168 / 4,262

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: 9.96Wellesley Fall 2026: 11.429.8118.515 Feb 202319 Sep 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-25 3×3 blindfolded single — 362 people have one; it is 0.67 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,783 people have one; it is 0.05 away.

Targets move as he improves.