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Nick Bench

3×3 · top 22.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2023 · 2023BENC01

Nick Bench has been competing for 3 years. Their best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 14.33, set at Welcome to Olympia 2023, puts them in the top 22.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 11,958th in the United States. Across 4 competitions since April 2023, they have put 77 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, their 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. That figure sets aside their 2 DNFs. Nick has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 22.1% of 284,439 all-time
14.33
signature single · Welcome to Olympia 2023
77
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×314.3316.67
top 22.1%11,958 / 59,724
2×24.186.20
top 28.8%11,427 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed26.7228.05
top 38.6%5,137 / 15,683
Clock13.6215.04
top 42.3%3,384 / 8,927
4×41:17.881:29.10
top 54.1%9,219 / 19,072
Skewb13.2324.04
top 71.7%13,512 / 18,907

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

Welcome to Olympia 2023: 14.33Tacoma Winter Twisters 2024: 15.95Olympia Classic 2024: 14.54Tacoma Summer 2024: 15.6414.3315.9529 Apr 20233 Aug 2024

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 their.

  • Henry Spear — met in 17 rounds, finished ahead once
  • Eli Kirk — met in 17 rounds, never finished ahead
  • Greyson James — met in 17 rounds, never finished ahead

Next targets

  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 2.33 away.
  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.18 away.

Targets move as they improves.