People · Italy
Piernicola Scalzi
3×3 · top 3.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2018 · 2018SCAL03
Piernicola Scalzi has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.28, set at Ticino: Back to One Handed 2024, puts him in the top 3.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 129th in Italy. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since October 2018, he has put 693 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 61% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.46 in October 2018 to 8.28, a 38% improvement. Piernicola has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% 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 | 8.28 | 9.92 | top 3.3% | 129 / 2,882 | |
| 2×2 | 2.12 | 3.73 | top 5.6% | 189 / 2,068 | |
| 4×4 | 36.37 | 42.05 | top 8.0% | 94 / 1,206 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 16.42 | 22.69 | top 11.2% | 103 / 887 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.39 | 8.46 | top 15.7% | 309 / 1,403 | |
| 5×5 | 1:29.72 | 1:40.16 | top 27.1% | 166 / 642 | |
| Skewb | 7.86 | 10.23 | top 40.2% | 392 / 804 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 8:10.93 | — | early days — 1 solve | 235 / 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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 8 Dec 2023Four personal bests in one day at Italian Championship 2023.
- 29 Oct 2022Three personal bests in one day at Muggiò Minx Open 2022.
- 28 May 2022Three personal bests in one day at Østervang Open 2022.
- 6 Nov 2021First sub-10 3×3: 9.77 at Ticino Open Saturday 2021.
- 31 Jul 2021Four personal bests in one day at Bologna Summer Open 2021.
- 2 Mar 2019Five personal bests in one day at Calabrian Open 2019.
Competitions
- Novo mesto Open 2026 · 16 May 2026
- Rubik's Italian Championship 2025 · 6 Dec 2025
- Zagreb Open 2025 · 24 May 2025
- Calabria Open 2025 · 22 Mar 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Ticino: Back to One Handed 2024 · 7 Dec 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024 · 25 Jul 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Lodi Speedcubing 2024 · 20 Apr 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Italian Championship 2023 · 8 Dec 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- Italian Championship 2022 · 9 Dec 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Muggiò Minx Open 2022 · 29 Oct 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Østervang Open 2022 · 28 May 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- FMC Italy 2021 · 11 Dec 2021
- Ticino Open Saturday 2021 · 6 Nov 2021 — 2 personal bests set
- Bologna Summer Open 2021 · 31 Jul 2021 — 4 personal bests set
- Road to IC - Monterotondo 2019 · 7 Sep 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Calabrian Open 2019 · 2 Mar 2019 — 5 personal bests set
- Italian Championship 2018 · 2 Nov 2018 — 5 personal bests set
- Sicily Open 2018 · 6 Oct 2018
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.
- Simone Cantarelli — met in 108 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
- Alessandro Nicolì — met in 103 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Marco Rota — met in 97 rounds, finished ahead 26 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.28 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.12 away.
Targets move as he improves.