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Riccardo Simone

3×3 · top 1.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2008 · 2008SIMO01

Riccardo Simone has been competing for 18 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.22, set at Italian Championship 2019, puts him in the top 1.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 66th in Italy. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 53 competitions since June 2008, he has put 2,253 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 76% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 30.02 in June 2008 to 7.22, a 76% improvement. Riccardo has entered 53 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.6% of 284,439 all-time
7.22
signature single · Italian Championship 2019
2,253
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 76% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingItaly
3×37.229.37
top 1.6%66 / 2,882
3×3 one-handed13.9719.78
top 6.0%58 / 887
2×22.473.78
top 8.6%270 / 2,068
4×438.9343.96
top 10.9%131 / 1,206
5×51:22.651:31.21
top 21.3%125 / 642
7×74:01.914:26.13
top 31.4%77 / 219
6×62:53.933:08.38
top 38.0%105 / 273
3×3 blindfolded4:38.45—
early days — 2 solves183 / 244
3×3 Fewest Moves52 moves—
early days — 1 solve227 / 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

Italian Open 2008: 30.02UK Open 2008: 16.80Italian Open 2009: 14.44Mantua Open 2009: 13.44World Rubik's Cube Championship 2009: 13.28Obei Obei Open 2009: 12.75South Italian Open 2009: 10.19Milan Cube Day 2010: 10.75Milan BLD Day 2010: 10.44Cube 'n Roll Italian Open 2010: 12.59S.P.Q.R. Italian Rubik's Cube Championship 2010: 11.55Mediolanum Open 2010: 10.15European Rubik's Cube Championship 2010: 11.94Mantua Open 2010: 11.40Halloween Cube Open 2010: 10.56LOL South Italian Open 2010: 11.52Mantua Spring 2011: 11.08Italian Rubik's Cube Championship 2011: 10.44Big CubingItaly Open 2011: 9.91Veneto Open 2011: 10.11Mantua Winter 2011: 10.11Milan Cube Open 2012: 10.22Legnano Open 2012: 10.65Italian Open 2012: 11.25Milan Blind Day 2012: 9.33Italian Championship 2012: 9.36Milan Winter Open 2013: 10.50Italian Championship 2013: 9.33Monticello Conte Otto Open 2013: 8.93Florence Fantastic Open 2013: 9.56Big CubingItaly Open 2013: 9.69Legnano Open 2013: 8.33Italian Open 2013: 9.31Milan Winter Open 2014: 9.34BP Cube Day 2014: 9.36Italian Championship 2014: 9.71Legnano Open 2014: 9.34Big CubingItaly 2014: 8.46PoliMi Italian Open 2014: 9.08Milan Winter Open 2015: 7.78PoliMi Open 2015: 9.13Milan Cube Days 2015: 9.19Mantova Open 2015: 9.21Mantua Tiny Open 2016: 9.80Big CubingItaly 2016: 9.40Italian Championship 2016: 9.58Fiorano Open 2017: 10.03Milan Cube Day 2017: 9.23Mantua Summer 2017: 9.30Mantua Winter 2018: 8.49Milan Saturday Open 2018: 9.25PoliMi Op3n 2018: 8.85Italian Championship 2019: 7.227.2230.0221 Jun 20081 Nov 2019

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 1.22 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 1.97 away.

Targets move as he improves.