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Hideki Niina (新名秀樹)

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 6.2% of 12,294 all-time · competing since March 2008 · 2008NIIN01

Hideki Niina (新名秀樹) has been competing for 18 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 26 moves, set at Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2013, puts him in the top 6.2% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 33rd in Japan. Across 92 competitions since March 2008, he has put 2,171 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 94% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.36 in March 2008 to 10.77, a 38% improvement. Hideki has entered 92 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 6.2% of 12,294 all-time
26 moves
signature single · Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2013
2,171
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 94% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×3 Fewest Moves26 moves29.67
top 6.2%33 / 201
Skewb3.555.27
top 8.0%42 / 338
3×310.7713.45
top 9.8%430 / 3,329
2×22.945.28
top 13.6%183 / 1,021
Pyraminx5.226.66
top 14.6%170 / 688
4×453.081:00.19
top 28.4%282 / 667
3×3 one-handed23.8129.58
top 31.0%253 / 529
Megaminx1:36.431:50.75
top 32.3%173 / 313
5×51:45.721:56.42
top 39.7%216 / 420
6×63:50.844:10.44
top 62.5%144 / 209
Square-142.2257.38
top 68.1%210 / 245
7×76:02.776:32.34
top 68.4%138 / 188
Clock22.2824.79
top 70.8%232 / 263
3×3 blindfolded5:33.31—
top 83.7%262 / 282
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 3 cubes · 20:56—
early days — 1 solve113 / 128

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

Osaka Open 2008: 17.36Japan Open 2008: 15.50Osaka Open 2009: 15.93Toyama Open 2009: 14.81Japan Open 2010: 15.2230th Anniversary MegaHouse Cup 2010: 12.71JRCA Kansai Summer 2010: 14.15Matsudo Open 2010: 15.90Ishikawa Gokoku Shinto Shrine Open 2010: 12.83Kansai New Year 2011: 12.55Osaka 2011: 13.38Matsudo Spring 2011: 10.77West Japan Big Cubes 2011: 13.96Japan Open 2011: 11.86Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2011: 13.25Matsudo Autumn 2011: 14.40Kyotanabe Open 2011: 12.94UT Open 2011: 14.80Hokuriku Eve 2011: 15.03Tsukuba 2012: 15.05Kansai Open 2012: 14.38Matsudo Spring 2012: 14.59Tokai Open 2012: 13.65Rabbit and Turtle 2012: 13.36Kyotanabe Open 2012: 14.09Kawasaki Open 2012: 13.71Kansai Star Festival 2012: 12.84Kanto Open 2012: 12.63Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2012: 13.08Hiroshima Open 2012: 13.86Japan Open 2012: 13.31East Osaka 2012: 14.84Japan Contest 2012: 11.63West Japan Big Cube 2012: 11.56UT Open 2012: 13.44Kanto Winter 2012: 12.96Hokuriku Eve Open 2012: 13.93Rabbit And Turtle 2013: 14.38Kansai Open 2013: 11.65Cherry Blossom Viewing Open 2013: 12.08Japan Contest Spring 2013: 14.46Kawasaki Open 2013: 13.83Japan Open 2013: 14.43Lake-Biwa Open 2013: 13.96Kansai Star Festival 2013: 11.22Tachikawa 3x3 Fest 2013: 13.09Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2013: 12.96East Osaka 2013: 12.75West Japan Big Cube 2013: 13.69UT Open 2013: 14.97Hokuriku Eve Open 2013: 14.38Kyushu Open 2013: 12.06JRCA Kansai Winter 2014: 14.08Kanto Open 2014: 12.44Kansai Open 2014: 14.06Cherry Blossom Viewing 2014: 12.47Japan Contest Spring 2014: 14.00JRCA Kansai Spring 2014: 15.36Kawasaki Spring 2014: 12.43JRCA Kansai Summer 2014: 11.84Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2014: 14.47Sapporo Open 2014: 13.33Japan Contest Autumn 2014: 15.15Asian Championship 2014: 14.61UT Open 2014: 14.56JRCA Kansai Fall 2014: 13.00Tokai Open 2014: 15.00Tachikawa 3x3 Fest 2014: 12.59Kyushu Open 2014: 14.09JRCA Kansai Winter 2015: 14.08Tokyo Pyraminx Open 2015: 16.02Kansai Open 2015: 11.63Japan Contest Spring 2015: 12.88JRCA Kansai Spring 2015: 12.28Kawasaki Summer 2015: 14.38JRCA Kansai Summer 2015: 13.63Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2015: 15.66Japan Open 2015: 14.72JRCA Kansai Fall 2015: 13.94Kansai Open 2016: 13.03JRCA Kansai Spring 2016: 14.91Kanto Summer 2016: 14.98Japan Open 2016: 15.42Kansai Small Cubes 2016: 13.65Kyushu Open 2016: 14.01Kansai Open 2017: 14.7510.7717.3629 Mar 200819 Mar 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-3 Skewb single — 3,646 people have one; it is 0.55 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.77 away.

Targets move as he improves.