People · Italy
Matilde Bandini
3×3 · top 4.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2021 · 2021BAND01
Matilde Bandini has been competing for 5 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.92, set at Rubik's Italian Championship 2025, puts her in the top 4.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 175th in Italy. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since July 2021, she has put 196 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 11.23 in July 2021 to 8.92, a 21% improvement. Matilde has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Italy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 8.92 | 10.30 | top 4.7% | 175 / 2,882 | |
| 4×4 | 36.30 | 42.42 | top 8.0% | 93 / 1,206 | |
| 2×2 | 2.67 | 4.63 | top 10.6% | 324 / 2,068 | |
| Megaminx | 1:05.05 | 1:11.54 | top 12.7% | 72 / 544 | |
| 5×5 | 1:16.33 | 1:20.15 | top 16.3% | 95 / 642 | |
| 6×6 | 3:00.75 | 3:07.84 | top 41.4% | 109 / 273 |
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
- 6 Dec 2025Three personal bests in one day at Rubik's Italian Championship 2025.
- 20 Apr 2024First sub-10 3×3: 9.90 at Lodi Speedcubing 2024.
- 20 Apr 2024Three personal bests in one day at Lodi Speedcubing 2024.
- 13 Jan 2024Five personal bests in one day at Forlì Big Cubes Open 2024.
- 31 Jul 2021First competition: Bologna Summer Open 2021. A 11.23 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Rubik's Italian Championship 2025 · 6 Dec 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Crevalcore al Cubo 2024 · 11 May 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Lodi Speedcubing 2024 · 20 Apr 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Forlì Big Cubes Open 2024 · 13 Jan 2024 — 5 personal bests set
- Bologna Back from Holidays 2021 · 28 Aug 2021 — 1 personal best set
- Bologna Summer Open 2021 · 31 Jul 2021
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.
- Marco Rota — met in 39 rounds, finished ahead 9 times
- Daniel Sartori — met in 39 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Simone Cantarelli — met in 35 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.92 away.
- A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 6.30 away.
Targets move as she improves.