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Giovanni Contardi

3×3 one-handed · top 0.71% of 73,695 all-time · competing since September 2009 · 2009CONT01

Giovanni Contardi has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 9.43, set at Italian Championship 2012, puts him in the top 0.71% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2nd in Italy. Until December 2012, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 35 competitions since September 2009, he has put 1,939 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 76% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.17 in September 2009 to 6.65, a 56% improvement. Giovanni has entered 35 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.71% of 73,695 all-time
9.43
signature single · Italian Championship 2012
1,939
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 76% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingItaly
3×3 one-handed9.4315.26
top 0.71%2 / 887
3×36.658.06
top 0.98%44 / 2,882
4×426.4828.42
top 1.1%11 / 1,206
5×554.471:00.69
top 3.2%15 / 642
2×22.253.66
top 6.6%222 / 2,068
Megaminx56.211:08.22
top 8.0%40 / 544
6×61:56.342:12.03
top 9.6%23 / 273
Pyraminx4.507.67
top 10.2%214 / 1,403
7×73:12.883:16.58
top 14.2%28 / 219
3×3 blindfolded1:34.221:50.13
top 24.6%62 / 244
3×3 Fewest Moves36 moves—
top 33.6%89 / 266
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 9:53—
early days — 3 solves56 / 100
Clock46.96—
early days — 1 solve404 / 414
Square-11:55.81—
early days — 3 solves397 / 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

Mantua Open 2009: 15.17South Italian Open 2009: 11.21Roma Open 2010: 8.96Cube 'n Roll Italian Open 2010: 9.53S.P.Q.R. Italian Rubik's Cube Championship 2010: 9.63Mediolanum Open 2010: 9.27European Rubik's Cube Championship 2010: 9.55Mantua Open 2010: 9.31LOL South Italian Open 2010: 9.38Mantua Spring 2011: 8.97Italian Rubik's Cube Championship 2011: 7.75Roma Open 2011: 7.63Castelbelforte Cube Battle 2011: 8.02Italian Open 2011: 8.36World Rubik's Cube Championship 2011: 7.96Mantua Winter 2011: 8.75European Rubik's Cube Championship 2012: 9.03Italian Championship 2012: 6.86Italian Championship 2013: 8.09Swedish Cube Days 2013: 7.71Melbourne Summer 2014: 7.91BP Cube Day 2014: 8.44Italian Championship 2014: 8.13Niddrie 2014: 8.11Australian Nationals 2015: 7.55San Marino Nationals 2018: 8.42Bologna NxN Spring 2019: 8.07San Marino Nationals 2019: 7.87Romagna Open 2019: 7.27WCA World Championship 2019: 7.73Road to IC - Bologna 2019: 8.04Road to IC - Milano 2019: 6.84Italian Championship 2019: 7.09Franconia X 2019: 7.16Pesaro Open 2022: 6.656.6515.1719 Sep 200926 Feb 2022

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 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 1.43 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.65 away.

Targets move as he improves.