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Caterina Pali

3×3 · top 9.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2016 · 2016PALI02

Caterina Pali has been competing for 10 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.80, set at Tuscany Open 2017, puts her in the top 9.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 369th in Italy. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since April 2016, she has put 116 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 97% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 18.63 in April 2016 to 10.80, a 42% improvement. Caterina has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.9% of 284,439 all-time
10.80
signature single · Tuscany Open 2017
116
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 97% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingItaly
3×310.8013.39
top 9.9%369 / 2,882
3×3 one-handed16.2623.00
top 10.8%97 / 887
Pyraminx8.149.91
top 37.4%644 / 1,403
4×41:22.081:36.34
top 57.6%680 / 1,206
Megaminx3:09.50
early days — 1 solve405 / 544
Square-157.43
early days — 1 solve321 / 411

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

Small Cubingitaly 2016: 18.63Florence Rubik's Cube Open 2016: 19.72Italian Championship 2016: 15.77Almost Rome Open 2017: 13.72World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 13.01Tuscany Open 2017: 10.8010.8019.7217 Apr 201625 Nov 2017

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.80 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 5,987 people have one; it is 1.26 away.

Targets move as she improves.