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Liam Bendjebbour

2×2 · top 1.8% of 186,767 all-time · competing since June 2025 · 2025BEND02

Liam Bendjebbour has been competing for a year. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.41, set at Barby Cube 2026, puts him in the top 1.8% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 80th in France. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since June 2025, he has put 205 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one; 96% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. That figure sets aside his 6 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.04 in June 2025 to 11.45, a 46% improvement. Liam has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 1.8% of 186,767 all-time
1.41
signature single · Barby Cube 2026
205
official solves on the record
17%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 96% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFrance
2×21.414.07
top 1.8%80 / 3,074
3×311.4515.92
top 12.0%614 / 4,746
Clock9.8711.72
top 24.4%161 / 714
Pyraminx6.807.69
top 26.2%621 / 2,148
Skewb7.2114.66
top 35.3%486 / 1,291
4×41:16.011:29.74
top 52.5%921 / 1,817

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

Barby Cube 2025: 21.04Sorg'Open 2025: 13.34Algorithmes Artistiques Abrésiens 2025: 14.28Cœur de Cube Charantonnay 2026: 16.94French Championship 2026: 17.59Camargue Open 2026: 17.18Barby Cube 2026: 13.57Algorithmes Artistiques Abrésiens 2026: 11.4511.4521.047 Jun 202522 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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.41 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.45 away.

Targets move as he improves.