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Joe Benjamin Roberts

3×3 · top 4.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2023 · 2023ROBE15

Joe Benjamin Roberts has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.93, set at DFW Cubing Spring 2023, puts him in the top 4.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 366th in the United Kingdom. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since May 2023, he has put 138 official solves on the record across four 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. Joe has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.7% of 284,439 all-time
8.93
signature single · DFW Cubing Spring 2023
138
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 Kingdom
3×38.9310.43
top 4.7%366 / 6,689
2×22.324.30
top 7.2%505 / 4,895
3×3 one-handed17.3825.93
top 13.5%255 / 1,851
4×445.9751.47
top 19.5%435 / 2,071

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

DFW Cubing Spring 2023: 8.93CubingUSA Southern Championship 2023: 9.51DFW Cubing Summer 2023: 9.97Pretzel Mania Dallas 2023: 10.718.9310.717 May 202326 Aug 2023

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.93 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.32 away.

Targets move as he improves.