People · Italy
Riccardo Gambaro
2×2 · top 4.8% of 189,179 all-time · competing since January 2025 · 2025GAMB01
Riccardo Gambaro has been competing for a year. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.00, set at Rubik's Italian Championship 2025, puts him in the top 4.8% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 165th in Italy. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since January 2025, he has put 166 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 70% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. That figure sets aside his 4 DNFs. His 2×2 best has come down from 13.99 in January 2025 to 2.00, an 86% improvement. Riccardo has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Italy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 2.00 | 4.44 | top 4.8% | 165 / 2,079 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.79 | 9.47 | top 18.5% | 348 / 1,417 | |
| 3×3 | 17.04 | 19.68 | top 31.2% | 1,064 / 2,897 | |
| Megaminx | 3:22.74 | — | early days — 2 solves | 439 / 551 | |
| 4×4 | 2:02.13 | — | top 82.6% | 979 / 1,211 |
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, 2×2. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 21 Mar 2026First sub-20 3×3: 18.70 at Illasi al Cubo 2026.
- 21 Mar 2026Three personal bests in one day at Illasi al Cubo 2026.
- 13 Sep 2025First sub-30 3×3: 23.08 at Casorezzo Back to School 2025.
- 11 Jan 2025First competition: Casorezzo Winter Open 2025. A 46.42 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Swiss Nationals 2026 · 16 Oct 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Muggiò Spring 2026 · 11 Apr 2026
- Casorezzo Spring 2026 · 28 Mar 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Illasi al Cubo 2026 · 21 Mar 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- Rubik's Italian Championship 2025 · 6 Dec 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Muggiò: IC Qualifier 2025 · 18 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Casorezzo Back to School 2025 · 13 Sep 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Muggiò Spring 2025 · 15 Mar 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Casorezzo Winter Open 2025 · 11 Jan 2025
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.
- Christian Crea — met in 36 rounds, never finished ahead
- Leonardo Corbelli — met in 32 rounds, never finished ahead
- Giosuele Chiarella — met in 31 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
Next targets
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 1.00 away.
- A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,242 people have one; it is 0.79 away.
Targets move as he improves.