People · Malta
Luca Portelli
3×3 · top 7.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2025 · 2025PORT05
Luca Portelli has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.02, set at Coventry Spring 2025, puts him in the top 7.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3rd in Malta. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 3 competitions since May 2025, he has put 103 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. Luca has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Malta | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 10.02 | 12.15 | top 7.5% | 3 / 46 | |
| 4×4 | 45.48 | 48.96 | top 18.9% | 2 / 13 | |
| 2×2 | 3.49 | 5.70 | top 20.1% | 5 / 27 | |
| 5×5 | 1:29.05 | 1:31.53 | top 26.5% | 2 / 5 | |
| Megaminx | 1:32.09 | 1:41.63 | top 29.5% | 2 / 5 | |
| 6×6 | 3:07.01 | 3:45.17 | top 44.2% | 2 / 2 |
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
- 18 Apr 2026Three personal bests in one day at Liverpool Spring 2026.
- 24 May 2025First competition: Coventry Spring 2025. A 13.03 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Manchester Cubing League - Third 2026 · 13 Jun 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Liverpool Spring 2026 · 18 Apr 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- Coventry Spring 2025 · 24 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Jensen Belen-Brown — met in 22 rounds, finished ahead once
- Jimi Naysmith — met in 19 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Benjamin Espinosa — met in 19 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.02 away.
- A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 5.48 away.
Targets move as he improves.