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Tirth Benara

3×3 · top 4.6% of 288,433 all-time · competing since February 2020 · 2020BENA02

Tirth Benara has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.87, set at Return to Green OH 2026, puts him in the top 4.6% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,588th in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 27 competitions since February 2020, he has put 842 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 59% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.85 in February 2020 to 8.87, a 61% improvement. Tirth has entered 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.6% of 288,433 all-time
8.87
signature single · Return to Green OH 2026
842
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.8711.96
top 4.6%2,588 / 60,666
Pyraminx3.534.99
top 5.6%1,464 / 29,168
2×22.123.48
top 5.6%2,278 / 41,674
3×3 one-handed16.9123.83
top 12.4%1,635 / 15,900
Skewb4.507.34
top 14.5%2,288 / 19,164
4×443.8645.73
top 16.9%2,596 / 19,354
Clock8.8010.62
top 18.8%1,463 / 9,172
Square-116.1423.49
top 19.0%1,299 / 6,846
Megaminx1:20.981:35.53
top 22.5%1,575 / 8,026
5×51:31.431:42.83
top 28.6%2,273 / 9,537
6×63:01.513:11.91
top 41.8%1,564 / 4,262
7×75:45.577:11.18
top 64.2%1,971 / 3,236

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

Babylon Winter 2020: 22.85Empire State Spring 2022: 14.56Princeton Spring 2022: 15.14Babylon Summer 2022: 14.18Empire State Fall 2022: 11.74New York Yopen 2022: 12.44Empire State Winter Whirl 2023: 13.09NJIT Spring 2023: 12.14PBs in Palisades 2023: 10.45GCU Spring 2023: 13.58North Jersey Speedsolving B 2023: 12.08CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023: 11.42Manhattan Mini A 2023: 12.06Cubes on the Bayside Summer 2024: 9.88Return to Green OH 2026: 8.87OberliNxN 2026: 11.65No Clocks in Greenpoint 2026: 10.71Great Peconic Bay 2026: 9.33NAC Prep in Palisades 2026: 12.32Westport Summer 2026: 11.10Oberlin Mid-Autumn Festival 2026: 10.468.8722.8529 Feb 202025 Sep 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-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.87 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,783 people have one; it is 0.53 away.

Targets move as he improves.