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Andrew Ricci

3×3 · top 0.58% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2010 · 2010RICC02

Andrew Ricci has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.15, set at United States National Championships 2012, puts him in the top 0.58% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 386th in the United States. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 49 competitions since August 2010, he has put 1,306 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 93% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 27.77 in August 2010 to 6.15, a 78% improvement. Andrew has entered 49 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.58% of 284,439 all-time
6.15
signature single · United States National Championships 2012
1,306
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 93% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.157.92
top 0.58%386 / 59,724
2×21.443.03
top 1.9%752 / 40,951
4×437.5843.14
top 9.3%1,392 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed16.7819.91
top 12.0%1,567 / 15,683
3×3 Fewest Moves33 moves—
early days — 3 solves507 / 2,040
5×52:33.213:01.35
top 67.3%5,881 / 9,401

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

United States Rubik's Cube Championships 2010: 27.77MIT Fall 2010: 15.59Brown Cubing Day 2011: 12.52MIT Spring 2011: 11.52Harvard Spring 2011: 10.21Captain's Cove competition 2011: 10.90Hackley Summer 2011: 9.02Yale Fall 2011: 9.02Princeton Fall 2011: 9.63Harvard Fall 2011: 9.56Liberty Science Center Open 2011: 9.65MIT Fall 2011: 8.19MIT Spring 2012: 8.21Newark Head to Head 2012: 9.25Harvard Spring 2012: 7.91Yale Spring 2012: 7.96Brown Cubing Day 2012: 8.18Captain's Cove competition 2012: 9.13United States National Championships 2012: 6.15St. Joseph's College Summer 2012: 8.05Yale Fall 2012: 8.15Princeton Fall 2012: 7.75Harvard Fall 2012: 9.15MIT Fall 2012: 8.18Harvard Spring 2013: 8.03MIT Spring 2013: 7.52Princeton Spring 2013: 8.91Yale Spring 2013: 7.84World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 7.43CCFC Fall 2013: 9.03Harvard Fall 2013: 7.63Yale Fall 2013: 8.22US Nationals 2015: 7.72Norwich Summer 2015: 7.01Phillips Exeter Cube Day 2015: 7.82Lexington Fall 2015: 6.50Northeastern Fall 2015: 7.68MIT Fall 2015: 7.51Red Cross Cubing Open 2016: 6.84Sharon Winter 2016: 6.40Princeton Winter 2016: 7.47Melrose Winter 2016: 7.08Big Apple Cube Clash 2016: 6.80Weston Spring 2016: 6.77New Hampshire Open 2016: 6.28Northeastern Spring 2016: 7.43Melrose Summer 2016: 6.88US Nationals 2016: 7.54Sharon Summer 2016: 6.846.1527.776 Aug 201013 Aug 2016

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.

  • Tim Reynolds — met in 190 rounds, finished ahead 155 times
  • Rowe Hessler — met in 171 rounds, finished ahead 46 times
  • Kian Barry — met in 147 rounds, finished ahead 112 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.15 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.44 away.

Targets move as he improves.