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Samuele Cancemi

3×3 · top 3.3% of 288,433 all-time · competing since April 2016 · 2016CANC03

Samuele Cancemi has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.29, set at Malta End of Summer 2025, puts him in the top 3.3% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 131st in Italy. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since April 2016, he has put 801 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 58% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.72 in April 2016 to 8.29, a 40% improvement. Samuele has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.3% of 288,433 all-time
8.29
signature single · Malta End of Summer 2025
801
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 58% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingItaly
3×38.299.82
top 3.3%131 / 2,897
2×21.963.91
top 4.5%157 / 2,079
Pyraminx4.115.12
top 8.3%182 / 1,417
4×439.5850.24
top 11.7%142 / 1,211
3×3 one-handed16.9421.97
top 12.5%118 / 896
5×51:29.861:33.22
top 27.3%168 / 649
3×3 Fewest Moves39 moves—
early days — 3 solves123 / 266
6×63:12.993:23.47
top 47.3%127 / 278
Skewb12.4623.07
top 68.3%610 / 810
7×76:11.247:01.21
top 70.4%153 / 222
Megaminx3:27.32—
early days — 1 solve445 / 551
Square-158.88—
early days — 2 solves331 / 415

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

Small Cubingitaly 2016: 13.72Italian Championship 2016: 13.28Etna Open 2016: 10.93Almost Rome Open 2017: 9.91Italian Open 2017: 10.72Italian Championship 2017: 9.56Etna Open 2018: 9.47Eretum Open 2018: 9.12Sicily Open 2018: 8.97Italian Championship 2018: 9.52Turin Winter Open 2019: 9.12Bologna NxN Spring 2019: 9.27Italian Championship 2022: 9.77Paternò: Back To Sicily 2024: 10.07Sicily Summer: Arancino Open 2024: 10.15Malta Open 2024: 9.38Sicily Summer 2025: 9.40Malta End of Summer 2025: 8.29Maltese Championship 2026: 8.488.2913.7217 Apr 201626 Sep 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-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.29 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.96 away.

Targets move as he improves.