People · United States
Nico Spatucci
3×3 · top 0.98% of 288,433 all-time · competing since February 2020 · 2020SPAT01
Nico Spatucci has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.64, set at CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025, puts him in the top 0.98% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 628th in the United States. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since February 2020, he has put 474 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 71% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.57 in February 2020 to 6.64, a 71% improvement. Nico has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 6.64 | 8.04 | top 0.98% | 628 / 60,666 | |
| 2×2 | 1.70 | 3.54 | top 3.1% | 1,221 / 41,674 | |
| Skewb | 2.97 | 6.75 | top 4.9% | 767 / 19,164 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.10 | 6.42 | top 8.2% | 2,137 / 29,168 | |
| 4×4 | 39.73 | 42.88 | top 11.9% | 1,785 / 19,354 | |
| Megaminx | 1:09.61 | 1:24.17 | top 15.4% | 1,068 / 8,026 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 19.17 | 23.95 | top 18.3% | 2,393 / 15,900 | |
| 5×5 | 1:22.39 | 1:28.61 | top 21.2% | 1,665 / 9,537 | |
| Clock | 14.37 | 16.74 | top 45.3% | 3,751 / 9,172 | |
| 6×6 | 5:20.56 | 5:51.72 | top 85.2% | 3,520 / 4,262 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 7:58.45 | — | early days — 1 solve | 2,016 / 2,128 |
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
- 30 Aug 2025Four personal bests in one day at CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025.
- 31 Aug 2024Four personal bests in one day at Pretzel Mania Summer 2024.
- 2 Sep 2023Five personal bests in one day at Pretzel Mania Summer 2023.
- 20 Aug 2022First sub-20 3×3: 8.77 at St. Joseph's Prep 2022.
- 20 Aug 2022First sub-15 3×3: 8.77 at St. Joseph's Prep 2022.
- 20 Aug 2022First sub-10 3×3: 8.77 at St. Joseph's Prep 2022.
Competitions
- Plattsburgh 2026 · 10 Oct 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025 · 30 Aug 2025 — 4 personal bests set
- Bucks County Cubing PM 2025 · 9 Aug 2025
- Penn Cube Day Spring 2025 · 23 Mar 2025
- PA-retzel Mania Winter 2025 · 22 Feb 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Pretzel Mania Summer 2024 · 31 Aug 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Penn Cube Day Spring 2024 · 2 Mar 2024 — 1 personal best set
- GCU Winter 2024 · 13 Jan 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Princeton Fall 2023 · 18 Nov 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Pretzel Mania Summer 2023 · 2 Sep 2023 — 5 personal bests set
- Wilmington Warmup 2023 · 3 Jun 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- St. Joseph's Prep 2022 · 20 Aug 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Princeton Winter 2020 · 8 Feb 2020
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.
- Zach Ridall — met in 90 rounds, finished ahead 33 times
- Nico Ozsvath — met in 78 rounds, finished ahead 31 times
- Ishaan Lal — met in 78 rounds, finished ahead 9 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.64 away.
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.70 away.
Targets move as he improves.