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Gabriele De Matteis

3×3 · top 3.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2014 · 2014MATT05

Gabriele De Matteis has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.40, set at Apulia Open 2016, puts him in the top 3.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 134th in Italy. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since November 2014, he has put 287 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.00 in November 2014 to 8.40, a 30% improvement. Gabriele has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.5% of 284,439 all-time
8.40
signature single · Apulia Open 2016
287
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingItaly
3×38.4011.07
top 3.5%134 / 2,882
2×21.913.98
top 4.2%145 / 2,068
3×3 one-handed17.4823.28
top 13.8%132 / 887
Pyraminx6.579.48
top 24.4%451 / 1,403
Skewb6.259.62
top 27.7%296 / 804
4×453.2157.29
top 28.6%341 / 1,206
5×51:45.692:09.66
top 39.7%240 / 642
Megaminx2:43.59
early days — 2 solves345 / 544

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

Platform Open 2014: 12.00PoliMi Italian Open 2014: 12.33Italian Championship 2015: 10.64Monterotondo Open 2015: 10.66Apulia Open 2016: 8.40Italian Championship 2016: 10.348.4012.3316 Nov 20148 Oct 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.40 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.91 away.

Targets move as he improves.