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Ayano Maria Yoshida

2×2 · top 52.8% of 186,767 all-time · competing since November 2009 · 2009YOSH01

Ayano Maria Yoshida has been competing for 17 years. Her best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 6.19, set at Dutch Open 2012, puts her in the top 52.8% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 647th in Japan. Across 18 competitions since November 2009, she has put 280 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 58.86 in November 2009 to 30.18, a 49% improvement. Ayano has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 52.8% of 186,767 all-time
6.19
signature single · Dutch Open 2012
280
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 73% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
2×26.1912.31
top 52.8%647 / 1,021
3×330.1835.95
top 62.8%2,183 / 3,329
Clock19.6125.06
top 63.5%216 / 263
3×3 Fewest Moves48 moves
early days — 2 solves168 / 201
Pyraminx13.2521.19
top 74.3%575 / 688
3×3 one-handed1:06.861:48.70
top 87.6%502 / 529
4×43:11.50
top 97.3%658 / 667

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

UK Open 2009: 58.86Japan Open 2010: 50.86Kawasaki Open 2010: 50.27Dutch Open 2010: 42.78UK Open 2010: 35.22Aachen Open 2011: 38.63Mantua Spring 2011: 33.67NEMO Amsterdam Open 2011: 33.31Italian Rubik's Cube Championship 2011: 36.44World Rubik's Cube Championship 2011: 30.18Dutch Open 2011: 32.72UK Open 2011: 32.63European Rubik's Cube Championship 2012: 30.53Dutch Open 2012: 34.61Italian Championship 2012: 32.03Edinburgh Open 2013: 31.40Asian Championship 2014: 37.80UT Open 2015: 47.0930.1858.867 Nov 200923 Nov 2015

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-6 2×2 single — 95,042 people have one; it is 0.19 away.
  • A sub-30 3×3 single — 177,856 people have one; it is 0.18 away.

Targets move as she improves.