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Oliver Benken

3×3 · top 60.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2024 · 2024BENK02

Oliver Benken has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 28.58, set at Preble Spring 2025, puts him in the top 60.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 35,668th in the United States. Across 3 competitions since April 2024, he has put 40 official solves on the record across four events. Oliver has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 60.0% of 284,439 all-time
28.58
signature single · Preble Spring 2025
40
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×328.5841.54
top 60.0%35,668 / 59,724
Pyraminx14.5816.26
top 80.3%23,763 / 28,708
2×211.2014.37
top 82.1%34,073 / 40,951
Skewb18.1130.51
top 86.4%16,621 / 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

Cincinnati Speed Solving 2024: 11.20Northern Kentucky 2024: 11.48Preble Spring 2025: 11.9411.2011.9427 Apr 202412 Apr 2025

Best single per competition, 2×2. 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 single — 149,621 people have one; it is 3.58 away.
  • A sub-12 Pyraminx single — 86,891 people have one; it is 2.58 away.

Targets move as he improves.