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Sofia Malatesta

3×3 · top 48.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2011 · 2011MALA01

Sofia Malatesta has been competing for 15 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 23.28, set at Eretum Open 2017, puts her in the top 48.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,570th in Italy. Across 13 competitions since December 2011, she has put 284 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 93% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 53.65 in December 2011 to 23.28, a 57% improvement. Sofia has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 48.6% of 284,439 all-time
23.28
signature single · Eretum Open 2017
284
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 93% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingItaly
3×323.2829.85
top 48.6%1,570 / 2,882
Pyraminx9.8816.10
top 52.1%838 / 1,403
2×26.138.98
top 52.2%1,223 / 2,068
Skewb13.0922.15
top 71.0%628 / 804
4×41:46.582:22.09
top 74.7%884 / 1,206
3×3 one-handed1:04.681:15.76
top 86.5%762 / 887
5×53:41.18
top 88.6%564 / 642
3×3 Fewest Moves56 moves
early days — 2 solves246 / 266
6×66:59.00
early days — 1 solve263 / 273

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

Roma Winter Open 2011: 53.65Tiburtinae Open 2012: 32.78Italian Open 2013: 35.65Small CubingItaly 2014: 26.33Italian Championship 2014: 29.22Eretum Open 2014: 26.44Eretum Open 2015: 29.40Small CubingItaly 2015: 25.97Rome Slam Open 2016: 26.75Small Cubingitaly 2016: 24.93Rome Summer Open 2016: 24.19Eretum Open 2017: 23.2823.2853.6511 Dec 201127 May 2017

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 3.28 away.
  • A sub-8 Pyraminx single — 46,752 people have one; it is 1.88 away.

Targets move as she improves.