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Santino Maiorino

3×3 · top 1.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2017 · 2017MAIO01

Santino Maiorino has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.04, set at Cubing Knights IV 2023, puts him in the top 1.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 839th in the United States. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 28 competitions since September 2017, he has put 1,022 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 69% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.41 in September 2017 to 7.04, a 71% improvement. Santino has entered 28 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.4% of 284,439 all-time
7.04
signature single · Cubing Knights IV 2023
1,022
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 69% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.049.29
top 1.4%839 / 59,724
2×21.391.82
top 1.7%673 / 40,951
Pyraminx2.594.56
top 2.4%644 / 28,708
Skewb3.445.73
top 7.3%1,139 / 18,907
4×436.8041.22
top 8.5%1,277 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed15.6819.55
top 9.5%1,257 / 15,683
5×51:12.131:20.90
top 13.2%1,017 / 9,401
Square-115.1616.99
top 16.8%1,140 / 6,743
3×3 blindfolded1:14.53—
top 17.6%337 / 2,092
Clock8.8416.92
top 19.1%1,461 / 8,927
Megaminx1:26.661:39.03
top 26.0%1,790 / 7,841
6×62:41.582:54.71
top 31.6%1,118 / 4,196
3×3 Fewest Moves36 moves—
top 33.6%738 / 2,040
4×4 blindfolded7:36.09—
top 41.1%171 / 440
7×74:50.745:07.48
top 48.0%1,393 / 3,184

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

Princeton Fall 2017: 24.41Lower Moreland Spring 2018: 14.13Princeton Fall 2018: 12.25CubingUSA New Jersey Championship 2018: 12.61Penn Cube Day Fall 2018: 11.13New Hope Open Winter 2019: 11.44Princeton Winter 2019: 12.44Long Island Winter 2019: 9.77Lower Moreland Winter 2019: 8.53SBU Spring 2019: 10.02Ridge Cubing 2019: 11.62Ridge Cubing Fall 2019: 9.82SBU Fall 2019: 9.17Liberty Science Center Open 2019: 8.87Princeton Winter 2020: 9.48Babylon Winter 2020: 10.62Florida Returns 2021: 9.29Florida Fall 2021: 9.70Cubing Bulls 2022: 8.60Pegasus 2023: 9.53Cubing Knights IV 2023: 7.04Cubing Knights V 2023: 8.91Beach Bash Jacksonville 2024: 7.59St. Augustine 2024: 8.31Beach Bash Jacksonville 2025: 8.147.0424.4123 Sep 20179 Aug 2025

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 1.04 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.39 away.

Targets move as he improves.