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Gianluca Placenti

2×2 · top 9.6% of 189,179 all-time · competing since December 2012 · 2012PLAC01

Gianluca Placenti has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.56, set at Casagiove Winter 2026, puts him in the top 9.6% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 300th in Italy. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 96 competitions since December 2012, he has put 2,544 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 82% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 33.46 in December 2012 to 14.25, a 57% improvement. Gianluca has entered 96 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 9.6% of 189,179 all-time
2.56
signature single · Casagiove Winter 2026
2,544
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 82% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingItaly
2×22.566.16
top 9.6%300 / 2,079
Skewb4.7114.38
top 16.0%175 / 810
Pyraminx6.0712.35
top 20.6%391 / 1,417
3×3 Multi-Blind10 of 11 cubes · 57:38—
top 21.1%25 / 100
3×314.2517.17
top 21.9%778 / 2,897
4×454.271:02.20
top 30.0%360 / 1,211
3×3 blindfolded1:56.392:37.70
top 32.3%80 / 248
3×3 Fewest Moves38 moves45.33
top 41.0%109 / 266
5×52:02.752:20.75
top 51.1%310 / 649
4×4 blindfolded9:37.84—
top 55.4%28 / 48
Clock19.9123.48
top 64.4%291 / 419
3×3 one-handed41.661:10.21
top 67.6%610 / 896
Megaminx2:52.433:27.93
top 71.4%366 / 551
5×5 blindfolded23:58.00—
top 72.4%21 / 30
7×76:23.99—
top 73.1%162 / 222
6×64:35.145:04.00
top 76.0%208 / 278
Square-11:01.35—
top 84.5%342 / 415

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

Italian Championship 2012: 33.46Italian Championship 2013: 32.05Italian Open 2013: 20.56Salerno Winter Open 2013: 19.44Small CubingItaly 2014: 23.71Italian Championship 2014: 20.81Big CubingItaly 2014: 20.83Eretum Open 2014: 21.30PoliMi Italian Open 2014: 19.58Eretum Open 2015: 20.38Small CubingItaly 2015: 16.97Italian Championship 2015: 20.68Monterotondo Open 2015: 17.30Italian Open 2015: 18.31Capodrise Open 2016: 16.15Rome Slam Open 2016: 16.83Apulia Open 2016: 16.99Small Cubingitaly 2016: 16.86Florence Rubik's Cube Open 2016: 17.92Rome Summer Open 2016: 18.44The Most Serene Competition 2016: 15.95Italian Championship 2016: 19.13RoMinx Open 2016: 16.05Etna Open 2016: 16.58Almost Rome Open 2017: 17.06Eretum Open 2017: 16.42Italian Open 2017: 17.31Tuscany Open 2017: 19.47Eretum Open 2018: 16.97Roma3 Al Cubo 2018: 17.54Italian Open 2018: 16.59Sicily Open 2018: 18.02Italian Championship 2018: 15.12Tuscany Open 2018: 16.71Calabrian Open 2019: 15.14Etna Open 2019: 16.63Road to IC - Monterotondo 2019: 16.62Road to IC - Bologna 2019: 14.34Italian Championship 2019: 17.24Bologna Summer Open 2021: 14.85Italian Championship 2021: 17.96SPQR Open 2022: 16.59AOpen in Rome 2022: 16.62Italian Championship 2022: 18.35Eretum Open 2023: 17.22Parthenope Open 2023: 17.11Eretum 2: Easter Boogaloo 2023: 15.32Anzio Open 2023: 16.62Montemurlo Speedcubing 2023: 14.66Eretum III: WC Warmup 2023: 15.76Eretum 3.5: Easy Peasy Edition 2023: 18.52Eretum IV: Don't Stop the Cubing Tonight 2023: 17.11Parthenope Back to School 2023: 16.42Eretum VI: 5-4-3-2 Edition 2023: 18.73Italian Championship 2023: 15.72Eretum VII: Farewell 2023: 15.77Eretum I 2024: 18.37Manduria: Back to Apulia 2024: 15.34Eretum II: Easter Edition 2024: 16.45Parthenope Summer Open 2024: 16.49Roma ar Cubbo 2024: 16.84Rubik's Italian Championship 2024: 16.82Eretum I 2025: 15.39CubbOpen Roma 2025: 15.48Vieni a Cubare in Puglia 2025: 17.04Rome Spring Open 2025: 16.92Salento Tarallucci e Cubing 2025: 17.84Abruzzo al Cubo 2025: 14.25Eretum III 2025: 15.34Eretum IV 2025: 17.87Rubik's Italian Championship 2025: 15.82Casagiove Winter 2026: 15.51Eretum I: Winter Edition 2026: 15.19Calabria Open 2026: 17.60Eretum 2: Chocolate Edition 2026: 15.7814.2533.468 Dec 20124 Apr 2026

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-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.56 away.
  • A sub-4 Skewb single — 8,121 people have one; it is 0.71 away.

Targets move as he improves.