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Julianna Bennett

3×3 · top 3.3% of 288,433 all-time · competing since July 2013 · 2013BENN03

Julianna Bennett has been competing for 13 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.25, set at MIT Fall 2018, puts her in the top 3.3% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,880th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 35 competitions since July 2013, she has put 1,165 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 65% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 20.89 in July 2013 to 8.25, a 61% improvement. Julianna has entered 35 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.3% of 288,433 all-time
8.25
signature single · MIT Fall 2018
1,165
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 65% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.259.55
top 3.3%1,880 / 60,666
2×21.772.52
top 3.5%1,371 / 41,674
Pyraminx3.596.69
top 5.9%1,523 / 29,168
4×436.0541.02
top 7.8%1,207 / 19,354
Megaminx58.531:12.98
top 9.3%664 / 8,026
Skewb4.296.27
top 13.0%2,038 / 19,164
3×3 one-handed18.8125.38
top 17.4%2,272 / 15,900
5×51:37.831:45.38
top 33.8%2,712 / 9,537

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

World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 20.89Harvard Fall 2013: 13.78Chesapeake Science Point Fall 2013: 15.38Slow 'n Steady Fall 2013: 16.34River Hill Winter 2014: 12.25Princeton Winter 2014: 11.97Virginia Open Spring 2014: 13.93Lexington Spring 2014: 11.17Cornell Open Spring 2014: 10.60CCFC BLD Day 2014: 11.29US Nationals 2014: 10.30River Hill Summer 2014: 12.11Harvard Fall 2014: 10.40Virginia Open Fall 2014: 9.88Slow n Steady Fall 2014: 10.17MIT Fall 2014: 11.38River Hill Winter 2015: 10.24Virginia Open Spring 2015: 10.63US Nationals 2015: 10.88River Hill Fall 2015: 9.47Slow N Steady Winter 2016: 9.49Slow N Steady Spring 2016: 10.39US Nationals 2016: 11.94Monument Mountain Winter 2017: 9.63World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 10.40CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018: 9.71MIT Fall 2018: 8.25CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 8.83Empire State Fall 2019: 9.02Potomac Speedcubing 2020: 8.99Slow N Steady Spring 2022: 8.91CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022: 8.56CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 9.07Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 8.79Oregon State Fall 2026: 8.498.2520.8926 Jul 20133 Oct 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.25 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.77 away.

Targets move as she improves.