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Hiromi Hamaguchi (濱口弘海)

3×3 · top 15.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2018 · 2018HAMA03

Hiromi Hamaguchi (濱口弘海) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.47, set at Yoga Summer B 2022, puts him in the top 15.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 649th in Japan. Across 20 competitions since June 2018, he has put 273 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 65% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 51.06 in June 2018 to 12.47, a 76% improvement. Hiromi has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 15.5% of 284,439 all-time
12.47
signature single · Yoga Summer B 2022
273
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 65% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×312.4714.59
top 15.5%649 / 3,329
4×445.7852.38
top 19.3%193 / 667
Pyraminx6.579.15
top 24.4%260 / 688
2×24.765.67
top 36.3%450 / 1,021
3×3 one-handed28.4630.84
top 43.0%333 / 529
5×51:51.802:07.04
top 43.9%242 / 420
Square-138.1745.02
top 63.0%195 / 245
6×64:44.864:47.49
top 78.4%177 / 209

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

Maryland 2018: 51.06Fredericksburg Summer Open 2018: 48.58Slow N Steady Summer 2018: 40.41TJHSST Fall 2018: 33.00CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 27.31MLWGS Spring 2019: 21.52Pittsburgh Summer 2019: 16.31CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 17.45Slow N Steady Summer 2019: 21.05TJHSST Fall 2019: 14.51Potomac Speedcubing 2020: 20.08Slow N Steady Spring 2022: 14.73Princeton Spring 2022: 14.63River Hill Spring 2022: 12.83Pennsylvania Championship 2022: 13.55Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 13.98Owings Mills Summer 2022: 12.79Ota Summer 2022: 12.66Yoga Summer B 2022: 12.4712.4751.0630 Jun 201828 Aug 2022

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 — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.47 away.
  • A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 5.78 away.

Targets move as he improves.