People · Italy
Alessandro Ricci
Square-1 · top 0.028% of 25,272 all-time · competing since May 2018 · 2018RICC02
Alessandro Ricci has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the Square-1: a personal-best single of 3.61, set at Ivrea: Back to Square One 2024, puts him in the top 0.028% of the 25,272 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in Italy. Until March 2024, no official Square-1 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 34 competitions since May 2018, he has put 1,610 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.84 in May 2018 to 5.74, a 52% improvement. Alessandro has entered 34 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Italy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Square-1 | 3.61 | 5.43 | top 0.028% | 1 / 411 | |
| 2×2 | 0.76 | 2.49 | top 0.18% | 9 / 2,068 | |
| 3×3 | 5.74 | 8.05 | top 0.35% | 11 / 2,882 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 14.36 | 18.00 | top 6.8% | 65 / 887 | |
| 4×4 | 38.13 | 46.36 | top 9.9% | 113 / 1,206 | |
| Clock | 6.78 | 9.24 | top 10.2% | 55 / 414 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.17 | 6.82 | top 14.2% | 282 / 1,403 | |
| Skewb | 5.13 | 6.74 | top 19.2% | 204 / 804 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 1:37.88 | 1:42.63 | top 25.8% | 65 / 244 |
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 Jun 2024Three personal bests in one day at Bellinzona Open 2024.
- 4 May 2024Three personal bests in one day at Cavarzere al Cubo 2024.
- 26 Feb 2022Four personal bests in one day at Pesaro Open 2022.
- 1 Nov 2019Five personal bests in one day at Italian Championship 2019.
- 16 Feb 2019Three personal bests in one day at Mantua Winter 2019.
- 2 Nov 2018First sub-10 3×3: 9.72 at Italian Championship 2018.
Competitions
- Belli in Zona 2026 · 21 Feb 2026
- Rubik's Italian Championship 2025 · 6 Dec 2025
- Rubik's Italian Championship 2024 · 1 Nov 2024
- Ivrea: Back to Square One 2024 · 14 Sep 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024 · 25 Jul 2024
- Vigevano Squared 2024 · 13 Jul 2024
- Bellinzona Open 2024 · 1 Jun 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Crevalcore al Cubo 2024 · 11 May 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Cavarzere al Cubo 2024 · 4 May 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Lodi Speedcubing 2024 · 20 Apr 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Rovereto Speedcubing 2024 · 23 Mar 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Feltre Winter Open 2024 · 24 Feb 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Forlì Big Cubes Open 2024 · 13 Jan 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Italian Championship 2023 · 8 Dec 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Bagnolo al Cubo 2023 · 7 Oct 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Tridentum Open 2023 · 30 Sep 2023
- Cles: Too Hot For Cubing 2023 · 12 Aug 2023 — 1 personal best set
- It's Sarzana O'clock 2023 · 27 May 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Cavarzere Cube Days 2023 · 15 Apr 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Cles Side Events 2023 · 18 Mar 2023
- Italian Championship 2022 · 9 Dec 2022
- Castenaso Strikes Back 2022 · 27 Aug 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Trentin Open 2022 · 30 Jul 2022
- Rubik's WCA European Championship 2022 · 14 Jul 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Pesaro Open 2022 · 26 Feb 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- Italian Championship 2021 · 30 Oct 2021 — 1 personal best set
- Bologna Back from Holidays 2021 · 28 Aug 2021 — 1 personal best set
- Bologna Summer Open 2021 · 31 Jul 2021 — 2 personal bests set
- Bologna Winter Madness 2020 · 15 Feb 2020 — 2 personal bests set
- Italian Championship 2019 · 1 Nov 2019 — 5 personal bests set
- San Marino Nationals 2019 · 11 May 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Mantua Winter 2019 · 16 Feb 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- Italian Championship 2018 · 2 Nov 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- San Marino Nationals 2018 · 5 May 2018 — 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.
- Marco Rota — met in 225 rounds, finished ahead 167 times
- Simone Cantarelli — met in 218 rounds, finished ahead 161 times
- Fabian Tomasović — met in 215 rounds, finished ahead 97 times
Next targets
- A sub-3 Square-1 single — 1 people have one; it is 0.61 away.
- A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.74 away.
Targets move as he improves.