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Raffaele Russo Spena

Pyraminx · top 1.1% of 129,321 all-time · competing since March 2023 · 2023SPEN01

Raffaele Russo Spena has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.99, set at Rubik's Italian Championship 2024, puts him in the top 1.1% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 28th in Italy. Until July 2011, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 14 competitions since March 2023, he has put 708 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 90% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.79 in March 2023 to 10.10, a 36% improvement. Raffaele has entered 14 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 1.1% of 129,321 all-time
1.99
signature single · Rubik's Italian Championship 2024
708
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 90% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingItaly
Pyraminx1.994.51
top 1.1%28 / 1,403
2×22.144.15
top 5.7%193 / 2,068
3×3 blindfolded41.6054.30
top 7.3%21 / 244
3×310.1010.79
top 7.8%297 / 2,882
3×3 one-handed14.9619.49
top 8.0%76 / 887
4×439.8944.22
top 12.0%147 / 1,206
Skewb4.176.57
top 12.1%136 / 804
3×3 Multi-Blind12 of 13 cubes · 48:17—
early days — 3 solves16 / 100
Megaminx1:11.401:20.12
top 16.5%92 / 544
Square-117.8623.72
top 23.1%95 / 411
Clock10.8413.65
top 29.3%151 / 414
5×51:42.081:58.66
top 36.9%226 / 642
3×3 Fewest Moves38 moves41.33
top 40.9%109 / 266

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

Parthenope Open 2023: 15.79Serenissima Warm Up 2023: 15.48Eretum IV: Don't Stop the Cubing Tonight 2023: 13.28Italian Championship 2023: 13.66Parthenope Summer Open 2024: 11.43Italian Open 2024: 11.00Rubik's Italian Championship 2024: 10.97Parthenope Winter Open 2024: 10.85Cavarzere al Cubo 2025: 10.72Rubik's Italian Championship 2025: 10.83Casagiove Winter 2026: 11.79Vieni a Cubare in Puglia 2026: 10.10Dosson al Cubo 2026: 10.2810.1015.7911 Mar 202330 May 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-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.99 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.14 away.

Targets move as he improves.