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Hideko Nakano (中野秀子)

3×3 · top 59.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2008 · 2008NAKA01

Hideko Nakano (中野秀子) has been competing for 18 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 28.30, set at Japan Open 2010, puts her in the top 59.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,071st in Japan. Across 8 competitions since May 2008, she has put 44 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 51.68 in May 2008 to 28.30, a 45% improvement. Hideko has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 59.4% of 284,439 all-time
28.30
signature single · Japan Open 2010
44
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×328.3035.11
top 59.4%2,071 / 3,329
Pyraminx14.3015.76
top 79.1%604 / 688

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

Kashiwa Open 2008: 51.68Tokyo Open 2008: 1:08.43Japan Open 2008: 51.22Osaka Open 2009: 35.21JRCA Kanto Winter 2010: 34.72Japan Open 2010: 28.3030th Anniversary MegaHouse Cup 2010: 32.80Matsudo Spring 2011: 33.0528.301:08.435 May 200810 Apr 2011

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-25 3×3 single — 149,621 people have one; it is 3.30 away.
  • A sub-12 Pyraminx single — 86,891 people have one; it is 2.30 away.

Targets move as she improves.