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Eiji Sano (佐野栄治)

3×3 · top 24.1% of 288,433 all-time · competing since January 2019 · 2019SANO01

Eiji Sano (佐野栄治) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 14.88, set at JRCA Kansai Winter 2019, puts him in the top 24.1% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,013th in Japan. Across 6 competitions since January 2019, he has put 60 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. Eiji has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 24.1% of 288,433 all-time
14.88
signature single · JRCA Kansai Winter 2019
60
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×314.8820.01
top 24.1%1,013 / 3,360
4×41:10.441:17.98
top 47.4%448 / 679
2×26.287.79
top 53.8%657 / 1,026
5×52:33.062:43.71
top 67.3%344 / 426
Pyraminx12.1618.55
top 68.2%544 / 691

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

JRCA Kansai Winter 2019: 14.88Kansai Open 2019: 19.34Kansai Summer 2019: 16.88Kyoto Open 2019: 18.04Welcome Back Ayase Winter 2020: 16.8014.8819.3412 Jan 201926 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 40,277 people have one; it is 2.88 away.
  • A sub-1:00 4×4 single — 31,087 people have one; it is 10.44 away.

Targets move as he improves.