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Tommy Behnke

3×3 · top 7.0% of 288,433 all-time · competing since November 2022 · 2022BEHN01

Tommy Behnke has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.83, set at Lawrence Summer 2025, puts him in the top 7.0% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,908th in the United States. Until October 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since November 2022, he has put 725 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 69% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.72 in November 2022 to 9.83, a 47% improvement. Tommy has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.0% of 288,433 all-time
9.83
signature single · Lawrence Summer 2025
725
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 69% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.8311.53
top 7.0%3,908 / 60,666
4×437.5845.44
top 9.4%1,422 / 19,354
3×3 one-handed16.1119.62
top 10.5%1,412 / 15,900
2×22.794.28
top 12.0%4,791 / 41,674
Pyraminx4.818.02
top 12.1%3,195 / 29,168
Clock9.1310.47
top 20.5%1,614 / 9,172
5×51:24.941:33.33
top 23.4%1,838 / 9,537
3×3 Fewest Moves33 moves—
early days — 1 solve512 / 2,059
Skewb6.0010.18
top 25.8%4,246 / 19,164
Megaminx1:33.971:47.72
top 30.7%2,208 / 8,026
6×63:14.343:23.51
top 47.9%1,812 / 4,262
Square-129.3132.61
top 48.2%3,187 / 6,846
7×75:59.517:33.33
top 67.7%2,087 / 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

Concordia Turning 2022: 18.72Springfield Winter Open 2023: 15.52Cubing for Autism Missouri 2023: 12.80Springfield Summer Open 2023: 13.78Concordia Turning Fall 2023: 13.52Nimble Hands in Noblesville 2024: 12.61Big Cube Battle of Waterloo 2024: 11.28CoMO Cubing Winter 2024: 12.51Concordia Turning Spring 2024: 13.82Nebraska Championship 2024: 15.51IlliNxNois Spring 2025: 13.84St. Louis Spring 2025: 10.46Land of Lincoln 2025: 12.49Missouri Championship 2025: 11.02Lawrence Summer 2025: 9.83Concordia Turning Winter 2026: 11.44COMO Cube-Off 2026: 10.64Cube Girardeau 2026: 10.52Concordia Fall Foliage 2026: 9.959.8318.725 Nov 202210 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 1.83 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,465 people have one; it is 7.58 away.

Targets move as he improves.