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Giovanni Centili

3×3 · top 0.38% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2018 · 2018CENT02

Giovanni Centili has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.82, set at Lodi Time Trial 2023, puts him in the top 0.38% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 13th in Italy. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 40 competitions since June 2018, he has put 2,548 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 26.67 in June 2018 to 5.82, a 78% improvement. Giovanni has entered 40 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.38% of 284,439 all-time
5.82
signature single · Lodi Time Trial 2023
2,548
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 73% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingItaly
3×35.827.92
top 0.38%13 / 2,882
2×20.991.68
top 0.54%30 / 2,068
Pyraminx1.712.71
top 0.69%20 / 1,403
Square-16.5011.10
top 1.2%5 / 411
5×548.5555.71
top 1.4%9 / 642
3×3 one-handed10.5213.96
top 1.4%10 / 887
Skewb2.034.02
top 1.5%20 / 804
4×427.5332.27
top 1.6%17 / 1,206
Megaminx43.4448.49
top 2.6%16 / 544
6×61:40.841:47.63
top 4.3%10 / 273
7×72:51.903:04.53
top 8.4%16 / 219
3×3 blindfolded1:01.541:21.26
top 13.5%36 / 244
Clock7.869.04
top 14.5%83 / 414
3×3 Fewest Moves31 moves33.67
top 17.4%45 / 266
3×3 Multi-Blind8 of 10 cubes · 56:46—
top 34.6%34 / 100
4×4 blindfolded8:04.14—
top 43.9%25 / 48
5×5 blindfolded31:30.00—
early days — 1 solve26 / 30

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

Roma3 Al Cubo 2018: 26.67Italian Championship 2018: 14.65Road to IC - Monterotondo 2019: 10.07Italian Championship 2019: 10.18Bologna Winter Madness 2020: 9.73Italian Championship 2021: 7.95Pesaro Open 2022: 7.63SPQR Open 2022: 7.40Castenaso Strikes Back 2022: 7.79AOpen in Rome 2022: 7.22Crevalcore al Cubo 2022: 6.44Italian Championship 2022: 7.63Eretum Open 2023: 7.46Eretum 2: Easter Boogaloo 2023: 7.67Lodi Time Trial 2023: 5.82Anzio Open 2023: 7.74Eretum III: WC Warmup 2023: 6.99Eretum IV: Don't Stop the Cubing Tonight 2023: 6.26Parthenope Back to School 2023: 6.89Italian Championship 2023: 7.34Eretum VII: Farewell 2023: 7.15Eretum I 2024: 7.80Manduria: Back to Apulia 2024: 6.19San Marino Nationals 2024: 7.21Sicily Summer: Arancino Open 2024: 7.76Parthenope Summer Open 2024: 6.32Roma ar Cubbo 2024: 7.30Vieni a Cubare in Puglia Open 2024: 7.18Rubik's Italian Championship 2024: 7.59Eretum I 2025: 6.86Rome IC Qualifier 2025: 7.01Rubik's Italian Championship 2025: 8.205.8226.679 Jun 20186 Dec 2025

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.

  • Marco Rota — met in 471 rounds, finished ahead 384 times
  • Sofia Saletnich — met in 417 rounds, finished ahead 327 times
  • Flavio Rimi — met in 413 rounds, finished ahead 229 times

Next targets

  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.82 away.
  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.71 away.

Targets move as he improves.