SAT solvers are not fast on average. Even some very simple random distributions produce small (<100 variables) SAT instances that are very hard for the solvers.
I'm going to download the benchmarks and try to correlate them with the results CSV table (which doesn't show number of variables for each instance), but since the full random benchmarks are 2.9 GB compressed this might take a fair amount of work.
If you can provide any further guidance on finding the relevant instances I'd appreciate it.
For example I see some instances here with 120 variables but they are 7-SAT with around 10k clauses. Unless I'm mistaken reducing those to <=3-SAT will require adding about 20k more variables and tripling the number of clauses.