People · Italy
Maria Michela Gori
Pyraminx · top 5.7% of 129,321 all-time · competing since January 2025 · 2025GORI02
Maria Michela Gori has been competing for a year. Her best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 3.56, set at Rome IC Qualifier 2025, puts her in the top 5.7% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 123rd in Italy. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since January 2025, she has put 152 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 39.15 in January 2025 to 18.48, a 53% improvement. Maria has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Italy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyraminx | 3.56 | 11.33 | top 5.7% | 123 / 1,403 | |
| 3×3 | 18.48 | 23.67 | top 35.6% | 1,189 / 2,882 | |
| 2×2 | 5.25 | 7.58 | top 42.4% | 1,035 / 2,068 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 2:32.40 | — | top 44.0% | 111 / 244 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 35.04 | 47.47 | top 57.3% | 520 / 887 | |
| 4×4 | 1:35.62 | — | top 67.7% | 802 / 1,206 | |
| Skewb | 17.53 | 21.37 | top 85.2% | 704 / 804 | |
| Megaminx | 3:36.94 | — | top 85.3% | 464 / 544 |
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
- 27 Sep 2025First sub-20 3×3: 18.48 at Rome IC Qualifier 2025.
- 27 Sep 2025Five personal bests in one day at Rome IC Qualifier 2025.
- 25 Apr 2025First sub-30 3×3: 25.47 at Rome Spring Open 2025.
- 25 Jan 2025First competition: Eretum I 2025. A 39.15 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Eretum 2: Chocolate Edition 2026 · 4 Apr 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Eretum I: Winter Edition 2026 · 7 Feb 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Eretum IV 2025 · 2 Nov 2025
- Rome IC Qualifier 2025 · 27 Sep 2025 — 5 personal bests set
- Eretum III 2025 · 6 Sep 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Rome Spring Open 2025 · 25 Apr 2025 — 1 personal best set
- CubbOpen Roma 2025 · 22 Feb 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Eretum I 2025 · 25 Jan 2025
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 her.
- Flavio Tranquilli — met in 41 rounds, never finished ahead
- Vadim Svezhentsev — met in 39 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Sofia Saletnich — met in 37 rounds, finished ahead twice
Next targets
- A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.56 away.
- A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 3.48 away.
Targets move as she improves.