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Tommy Behnke

3×3 · top 7.0% of 284,439 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 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,835th in the United States. Until October 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since November 2022, he has put 602 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 35,811 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 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.0% of 284,439 all-time
9.83
signature single · Lawrence Summer 2025
602
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%3,835 / 59,724
4×439.7547.33
top 11.8%1,749 / 19,072
Pyraminx4.898.02
top 12.5%3,253 / 28,708
2×22.854.35
top 12.6%4,936 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed17.2819.73
top 13.3%1,713 / 15,683
3×3 Fewest Moves33 moves—
early days — 1 solve507 / 2,040
Clock9.8813.24
top 24.5%1,883 / 8,927
Skewb6.0010.18
top 25.7%4,184 / 18,907
Megaminx1:35.222:01.43
top 31.5%2,228 / 7,841
5×51:36.651:43.36
top 32.8%2,603 / 9,401
6×63:14.343:23.51
top 47.8%1,786 / 4,196
Square-134.4740.07
top 57.5%3,795 / 6,743
7×76:31.367:33.33
top 74.7%2,329 / 3,184

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: 10.649.8318.725 Nov 202218 Apr 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 — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.83 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 9.75 away.

Targets move as he improves.