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Marco Lapadula

Pyraminx · top 16.2% of 129,321 all-time · competing since November 2008 · 2008LAPA01

Marco Lapadula has been competing for 18 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 5.46, set at Italian Rubik's Cube Championship 2011, puts him in the top 16.2% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 317th in Italy. Across 14 competitions since November 2008, he has put 179 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 18% around a typical one; 97% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:24.63 in November 2008 to 22.58, a 73% improvement. Marco has entered 14 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 16.2% of 129,321 all-time
5.46
signature single · Italian Rubik's Cube Championship 2011
179
official solves on the record
18%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 97% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingItaly
Pyraminx5.4610.91
top 16.2%317 / 1,403
2×23.687.69
top 22.4%606 / 2,068
3×322.5830.62
top 46.9%1,530 / 2,882
4×42:00.08
top 81.8%959 / 1,206
3×3 one-handed1:01.68
top 84.8%753 / 887
Megaminx4:41.05
top 95.0%522 / 544
5×54:58.08
top 96.8%620 / 642
Square-11:43.94
early days — 3 solves391 / 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

Geneva Open 2008: 1:24.63Italian Open 2009: 55.53Mantua Open 2009: 54.08Obei Obei Open 2009: 42.61Milan Cube Day 2010: 40.13Milan BLD Day 2010: 27.55S.P.Q.R. Italian Rubik's Cube Championship 2010: 38.16Mediolanum Open 2010: 32.68Mantua Open 2010: 32.55Halloween Cube Open 2010: 32.71Milan Cube Open 2011: 29.18Italian Rubik's Cube Championship 2011: 22.58Milan Blind Day 2011: 29.5822.581:24.638 Nov 20084 Sep 2011

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-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.46 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.68 away.

Targets move as he improves.