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Ric Donati

3×3 one-handed · top 2.3% of 73,695 all-time · competing since May 2011 · 2011DONA02

Ric Donati has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 11.40, set at A Friday in Ashfield 2024, puts him in the top 2.3% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 365th in the United States. Until August 2010, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 26 competitions since May 2011, he has put 940 official solves on the record across twelve 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 24.18 in May 2011 to 8.54, a 65% improvement. Ric has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 2.3% of 73,695 all-time
11.40
signature single · A Friday in Ashfield 2024
940
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 61% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 one-handed11.4015.17
top 2.3%365 / 15,683
3×38.549.32
top 3.8%2,150 / 59,724
4×432.7238.37
top 4.8%750 / 19,072
2×22.333.21
top 7.3%2,895 / 40,951
Pyraminx4.567.83
top 10.6%2,761 / 28,708
Megaminx1:02.521:06.31
top 11.3%766 / 7,841
5×51:11.441:13.57
top 12.6%975 / 9,401
Skewb6.0810.69
top 26.3%4,285 / 18,907
Square-127.7139.58
top 45.0%2,922 / 6,743
3×3 Fewest Moves41 moves—
early days — 2 solves1,101 / 2,040
3×3 blindfolded3:39.32—
early days — 1 solve1,320 / 2,092
6×64:28.83—
early days — 2 solves2,938 / 4,196

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

Captain's Cove competition 2011: 24.18Yale Fall 2011: 21.81Harvard Fall 2011: 16.25MIT Fall 2011: 14.63MIT Spring 2012: 12.71Yale Spring 2012: 12.80United States National Championships 2012: 13.25MIT Fall 2012: 11.91Liberty Science Center Open 2012: 11.94MIT Spring 2013: 12.34World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 12.26Lexington Fall 2013: 12.25Liberty Science Center Open 2013: 10.56Williams Winter 2014: 11.03Cornell Open Spring 2014: 11.20MIT Fall 2014: 13.01Williams Winter 2015: 10.65Yale Spring 2015: 11.25MIT Spring 2015: 10.76Williams Winter 2016: 10.21Hudson Valley Summer 2019: 10.16Pioneer Valley Cubing A 2023: 9.25Northampton Winter A 2023: 9.05A Friday in Ashfield 2024: 9.84Berkshires Cube Day at BART 2026: 9.59UMass Spring 2026: 8.548.5424.1828 May 201128 Feb 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-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 1.40 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.54 away.

Targets move as he improves.