People · Italy
Alessandro Mercuri
3×3 · top 7.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2019 · 2019MERC07
Alessandro Mercuri has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.87, set at Roma ar Cubbo 2024, puts him in the top 7.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 272nd in Italy. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since September 2019, he has put 304 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 67% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.67 in September 2019 to 9.87, a 37% improvement. Alessandro has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Italy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 9.87 | 10.99 | top 7.1% | 272 / 2,882 | |
| 4×4 | 38.24 | 43.91 | top 10.0% | 115 / 1,206 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.30 | 9.15 | top 15.1% | 299 / 1,403 | |
| 2×2 | 4.21 | 5.12 | top 29.2% | 771 / 2,068 | |
| 5×5 | 1:39.61 | 1:50.97 | top 35.1% | 215 / 642 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 1 Nov 2024Four personal bests in one day at Rubik's Italian Championship 2024.
- 14 Sep 2024First sub-10 3×3: 9.87 at Roma ar Cubbo 2024.
- 27 Aug 2022First sub-15 3×3: 13.70 at Castenaso Strikes Back 2022.
- 7 Sep 2019First competition: Road to IC - Monterotondo 2019. A 22.61 3×3 single to start from.
- 7 Sep 2019First sub-20 3×3: 15.67 at Road to IC - Monterotondo 2019.
Competitions
- Trondheim Høst 2025 · 4 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Oslo Open 2025 · 20 Jun 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Rome Spring Open 2025 · 25 Apr 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's Italian Championship 2024 · 1 Nov 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Roma ar Cubbo 2024 · 14 Sep 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Eretum I 2024 · 18 Feb 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Eretum VI: 5-4-3-2 Edition 2023 · 29 Oct 2023
- Eretum 3.5: Easy Peasy Edition 2023 · 9 Jul 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Anzio Open 2023 · 20 May 2023 — 1 personal best set
- AOpen in Rome 2022 · 10 Sep 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Castenaso Strikes Back 2022 · 27 Aug 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Road to IC - Monterotondo 2019 · 7 Sep 2019 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Gabriele Cappelletti — met in 46 rounds, finished ahead once
- Sofia Saletnich — met in 42 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Flavio Rimi — met in 41 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.87 away.
- A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 8.24 away.
Targets move as he improves.