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Simone Canova

Square-1 · top 3.5% of 25,272 all-time · competing since November 2018 · 2018CANO06

Simone Canova has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the Square-1: a personal-best single of 8.37, set at Bologna Winter Madness 2020, puts him in the top 3.5% of the 25,272 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 17th in Italy. Until November 2013, no official Square-1 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since November 2018, he has put 565 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.53 in November 2018 to 11.34, a 45% improvement. Simone has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

Square-1
best event — top 3.5% of 25,272 all-time
8.37
signature single · Bologna Winter Madness 2020
565
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingItaly
Square-18.3711.86
top 3.5%17 / 411
2×22.665.24
top 10.5%318 / 2,068
3×311.3414.04
top 11.6%435 / 2,882
Pyraminx5.3911.43
top 15.7%309 / 1,403
Megaminx1:16.751:22.55
top 19.7%111 / 544
3×3 Fewest Moves32 moves46.33
top 20.4%54 / 266
4×447.1650.41
top 21.0%257 / 1,206
5×51:39.341:45.35
top 34.8%212 / 642
3×3 one-handed31.4836.67
top 50.0%439 / 887
Clock17.71—
early days — 2 solves270 / 414
Skewb11.0817.56
top 61.2%552 / 804
6×64:03.324:24.75
top 66.6%185 / 273
7×77:05.507:34.24
top 81.1%182 / 219

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 Championship 2018: 20.53Tuscany Open 2018: 17.54Mantua Winter 2019: 12.37Bologna NxN Spring 2019: 18.88Romagna Open 2019: 14.73Road to IC - Bologna 2019: 12.59Italian Championship 2019: 14.61Bologna Winter Madness 2020: 14.11Bologna Summer Open 2021: 11.61Bologna Back from Holidays 2021: 11.34Italian Championship 2021: 11.71Bologna New Year 2022: 13.38Romagna Open 2022: 12.51Castenaso Strikes Back 2022: 11.89Italian Championship 2022: 13.53San Marino Nationals 2024: 12.2311.3420.532 Nov 201828 Apr 2024

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 Square-1 single — 766 people have one; it is 0.37 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.66 away.

Targets move as he improves.