People · United States
Eric Pesci
3×3 · top 0.21% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2015 · 2015PESC01
Eric Pesci has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.39, set at Back to School Utah 2024, puts him in the top 0.21% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 146th in the United States. Until April 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 70 competitions since September 2015, he has put 3,208 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 62% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.19 in March 2016 to 5.39, a 69% improvement. Eric has entered 70 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 5.39 | 7.08 | top 0.21% | 146 / 59,724 | |
| 2×2 | 0.86 | 2.19 | top 0.31% | 135 / 40,951 | |
| 4×4 | 27.09 | 32.08 | top 1.4% | 239 / 19,072 | |
| 5×5 | 53.01 | 58.65 | top 2.7% | 211 / 9,401 | |
| Skewb | 2.67 | 4.39 | top 3.5% | 545 / 18,907 | |
| Pyraminx | 2.99 | 4.42 | top 3.6% | 953 / 28,708 | |
| 6×6 | 1:40.44 | 1:48.76 | top 4.2% | 150 / 4,196 | |
| Square-1 | 9.37 | 15.92 | top 5.0% | 367 / 6,743 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 14.02 | 15.75 | top 6.2% | 850 / 15,683 | |
| 7×7 | 2:44.76 | 2:59.84 | top 6.5% | 178 / 3,184 | |
| Megaminx | 58.00 | 1:07.91 | top 8.9% | 618 / 7,841 | |
| 3×3 Fewest Moves | 30 moves | 34.33 | top 14.8% | 327 / 2,040 | |
| Clock | 10.32 | 11.33 | top 26.7% | 2,054 / 8,927 | |
| 3×3 Multi-Blind | 3 of 3 cubes · 27:11 | — | early days — 1 solve | 435 / 731 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 4:19.17 | — | top 72.3% | 1,496 / 2,092 |
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
- 20 Jun 2024Four personal bests in one day at CubingUSA Rocky Mountain Championship 2024.
- 11 Nov 2023Five personal bests in one day at Utah Championship 2023.
- 27 Jul 2023Four personal bests in one day at CubingUSA Nationals 2023.
- 22 Oct 2022Nine personal bests in one day at Utah Championship 2022.
- 29 Jan 2022Three personal bests in one day at Utah Ice Cubing 2022.
- 18 Jan 2020Three personal bests in one day at Perfect Vision Provo 2020.
Competitions
- Davis County Showdown 2026 · 13 Jun 2026
- Utah All-Stars 2026 · 21 Mar 2026
- Utah Snowball Bash 2025 · 13 Dec 2025
- Utah Championship 2025 · 29 Nov 2025
- Utah State University Fall 2025 · 18 Oct 2025
- Davis County Showdown 2025 · 6 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Central Visayas Championship 2025 · 7 Jun 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Utah Puzzling for Awareness IV 2025 · 5 Apr 2025
- Utah Newcomers 2025 · 22 Mar 2025
- Utah Ice Cubing 2025 · 25 Jan 2025 — 1 personal best set
- PBQtah 7 2024 · 14 Dec 2024
- Spanish Fork PM 2024 · 23 Nov 2024
- Utah Cubing with Culture 2024 · 21 Sep 2024
- Back to School Utah 2024 · 24 Aug 2024 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA Rocky Mountain Championship 2024 · 20 Jun 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Utah Puzzling for Awareness 2024 · 13 Apr 2024
- Utah Newcomers 2024 · 16 Mar 2024 — 1 personal best set
- PBQtah 6 2024 · 17 Feb 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Utah Ice Cubing 2024 · 6 Jan 2024
- Utah Snowball Bash 2023 · 16 Dec 2023
- Utah Championship 2023 · 11 Nov 2023 — 5 personal bests set
- Spooky Solving Idaho 2023 · 28 Oct 2023 — 1 personal best set
- PBQ Utah Championship 2023 · 21 Oct 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Utah Valley Open 2023 · 9 Sep 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Back to School Utah 2023 · 19 Aug 2023
- Burley Summer 2023 · 12 Aug 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Nationals 2023 · 27 Jul 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- Utah Summer Side Events B 2023 · 1 Jul 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Southern Utah Summer 2023 · 27 May 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Salt Lake Utah Summer 2023 · 19 May 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Utah Puzzling For Awareness XL 2023 · 22 Apr 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Utah Megacomp 2023 · 25 Mar 2023
- FMC Anglo America 2023 · 18 Mar 2023 — 1 personal best set
- PBQtah 5 2023 · 18 Mar 2023
- Utah Ice Cubing 2023 · 28 Jan 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Utah Snowball Bash 2022 · 10 Dec 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Thanksgiving PBQ Tour - Lehi 2022 · 24 Nov 2022
- Utah Championship 2022 · 22 Oct 2022 — 9 personal bests set
- Back to School Utah 2022 · 27 Aug 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Southern Utah Summer 2022 · 23 Jul 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Utah's California Gull Extravaganza 2022 · 20 May 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Going Slow in Idaho 2022 · 7 May 2022 — 1 personal best set
- PBQtah Winter 2022 · 5 Mar 2022
- Utah Ice Cubing 2022 · 29 Jan 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Western Championship 2021 · 26 Nov 2021 — 2 personal bests set
- Utah Fall 2021 · 23 Oct 2021 — 2 personal bests set
- Idaho Summer B 2021 · 17 Jul 2021
- PBQtah Sandy Winter 2020 · 29 Feb 2020
- Perfect Vision Provo 2020 · 18 Jan 2020 — 3 personal bests set
- Big and Skewb Utah 2019 · 16 Nov 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Southern Utah Fall Open 2019 · 19 Oct 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- Resticker Utah 2019 · 21 Sep 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Utah's California Gull Extravaganza 2019 · 15 Jun 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Utah's April Surprise 2019 · 13 Apr 2019 — 13 personal bests set
- Utah Spring Open 2019 · 23 Mar 2019 — 4 personal bests set
- Utah Valley Open 2019 · 5 Jan 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- Utah Snowball Bash 2018 · 1 Dec 2018 — 3 personal bests set
- FMC Americas 2018 · 4 Nov 2018
- Southern Utah Fall Open 2018 · 8 Sep 2018 — 3 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Nationals 2018 · 27 Jul 2018 — 1 personal best set
- Utah Big Blind-off 2018 · 12 May 2018 — 3 personal bests set
- Utah Spring Open 2018 · 14 Apr 2018 — 3 personal bests set
- Utah Winter Open 2018 · 27 Jan 2018 — 5 personal bests set
- Utah Speedcube Speedoff 2017 · 7 Oct 2017 — 4 personal bests set
- Utah Megacomp II 2017 · 11 Mar 2017 — 1 personal best set
- Utah Cubing for Charity 2017 · 21 Jan 2017 — 2 personal bests set
- Utah Fall Championship 2016 · 10 Sep 2016 — 1 personal best set
- Idaho Speedcubing 2016 · 9 Jul 2016 — 8 personal bests set
- Utah Spring: Gotta go Fast 2016 · 5 Mar 2016 — 1 personal best set
- Utah Megacomp 2015 · 5 Sep 2015
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.
- Isaac Myers — met in 562 rounds, finished ahead 400 times
- Damian Wilding — met in 475 rounds, finished ahead 381 times
- Cade Beck — met in 433 rounds, finished ahead 349 times
Next targets
- A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.39 away.
- A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 2.09 away.
Targets move as he improves.