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Nicola Barbaro

3×3 · top 0.88% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2011 · 2011BARB03

Nicola Barbaro has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.53, set at Italian Championship 2018, puts him in the top 0.88% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 35th in Italy. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since December 2011, he has put 943 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 64% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.15 in December 2011 to 6.53, a 41% improvement. Nicola has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.88% of 284,439 all-time
6.53
signature single · Italian Championship 2018
943
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 64% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingItaly
3×36.538.40
top 0.88%35 / 2,882
3×3 one-handed11.7514.45
top 2.7%26 / 887
2×22.184.27
top 6.0%201 / 2,068
4×435.7142.58
top 7.4%90 / 1,206
Megaminx1:13.311:23.28
top 17.6%102 / 544
5×51:33.181:45.02
top 30.0%185 / 642
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves
early days — 2 solves79 / 266
Square-144.281:09.85
top 70.3%277 / 411
Pyraminx14.8217.69
top 81.2%1,173 / 1,403
3×3 blindfolded5:31.09
early days — 1 solve207 / 244

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

Roma Winter Open 2011: 11.15Beneventum Open 2012: 8.80Sinuessa Open 2012: 8.97Italian Championship 2012: 9.66Italian Championship 2013: 8.40Legnano Open 2013: 8.40Salerno Winter Open 2013: 9.41Italian Championship 2014: 8.15Platform Open 2014: 8.58PoliMi Italian Open 2014: 8.86Small CubingItaly 2015: 6.64PoliMi Open 2015: 7.88Italian Championship 2015: 7.66Minyons de Terrassa Open 2015: 8.05Italian Open 2015: 7.78Apulia Open 2016: 7.44Eretum Open 2017: 7.55PoliMi Op3n 2018: 7.67Italian Championship 2018: 6.536.5311.1511 Dec 20112 Nov 2018

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.53 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 1.75 away.

Targets move as he improves.