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Nicolo David Lodato

3×3 · top 0.64% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2022 · 2022LODA01

Nicolo David Lodato has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.24, set at Eretum II: Easter Edition 2024, puts him in the top 0.64% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 21st in Italy. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since May 2022, he has put 902 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.88 in May 2022 to 6.24, a 58% improvement. Nicolo has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.64% of 284,439 all-time
6.24
signature single · Eretum II: Easter Edition 2024
902
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingItaly
3×36.248.01
top 0.64%21 / 2,882
6×61:38.241:50.10
top 3.6%8 / 273
4×432.9337.16
top 4.9%63 / 1,206
5×559.571:03.68
top 5.3%34 / 642
2×22.293.23
top 7.0%230 / 2,068
3×3 blindfolded42.461:08.00
top 7.5%22 / 244
7×72:50.162:58.47
top 7.9%15 / 219
Clock6.327.55
top 8.4%49 / 414
Pyraminx4.267.19
top 9.0%192 / 1,403
3×3 one-handed16.8920.08
top 12.3%115 / 887
Square-116.5023.94
top 19.8%81 / 411
Skewb6.549.51
top 30.0%314 / 804
4×4 blindfolded6:49.97—
early days — 1 solve19 / 48
Megaminx1:45.941:50.05
top 38.1%188 / 544
5×5 blindfolded14:52.00—
early days — 1 solve15 / 30
3×3 Fewest Moves39 moves—
early days — 2 solves123 / 266
3×3 Multi-Blind6 of 10 cubes · 31:40—
early days — 1 solve69 / 100

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

SPQR Open 2022: 14.88Romagna Open 2022: 11.34Castenaso Strikes Back 2022: 10.22AOpen in Rome 2022: 10.03Eretum 2: Easter Boogaloo 2023: 9.03Anzio Open 2023: 7.82Eretum III: WC Warmup 2023: 8.68Eretum 3.5: Easy Peasy Edition 2023: 8.63Eretum IV: Don't Stop the Cubing Tonight 2023: 9.21Eretum II: Easter Edition 2024: 6.24Almost Flaminia Open 2024: 9.08Roma ar Cubbo 2024: 8.64Rubik's Italian Championship 2024: 8.69Eretum I 2025: 8.30Rome Spring Open 2025: 8.42Eretum III 2025: 6.64Rome IC Qualifier 2025: 7.40Eretum IV 2025: 7.27Casagiove Winter 2026: 7.60Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 7.796.2414.887 May 202216 Jul 2026

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 0.24 away.
  • A sub-1:30 6×6 single — 336 people have one; it is 8.24 away.

Targets move as he improves.