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Ari Kojima (小島有理)

3×3 · top 12.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2018 · 2018KOJI01

Ari Kojima (小島有理) has been competing for 8 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.63, set at Welcome Back Ayase Winter 2020, puts her in the top 12.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 536th in Japan. Across 5 competitions since November 2018, she has put 28 official solves on the record across one event. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. That figure sets aside her 2 DNFs. Her 3×3 best has come down from 15.70 in November 2018 to 11.63, a 26% improvement. Ari has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 12.6% of 284,439 all-time
11.63
signature single · Welcome Back Ayase Winter 2020
28
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×311.6312.44
top 12.6%536 / 3,329

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

Saitama 2018: 15.70Japan Championship 2018: 15.66Ayase 2019: 15.33Tribox Open Spring 2019: 12.02Welcome Back Ayase Winter 2020: 11.6311.6315.7011 Nov 201826 Dec 2020

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.63 away.

Targets move as she improves.