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Hiroshi Ishino (石野弘司)

3×3 · top 42.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2005 · 2005ISHI01

Hiroshi Ishino (石野弘司) has been competing for 21 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 20.84, set at Ishikawa Gokoku Shinto Shrine Open 2010, puts him in the top 42.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,566th in Japan. Across 14 competitions since September 2005, he has put 93 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 63% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 41.84 in September 2005 to 20.84, a 50% improvement. Hiroshi has entered 14 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 42.3% of 284,439 all-time
20.84
signature single · Ishikawa Gokoku Shinto Shrine Open 2010
93
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×320.8423.27
top 42.3%1,566 / 3,329
4×41:35.651:52.30
top 67.7%558 / 667
2×214.1120.64
top 89.0%956 / 1,021
3×3 one-handed1:10.631:25.83
top 89.3%512 / 529
5×54:23.564:53.69
top 94.3%406 / 420

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

Japanese Championship 2005: 41.84Tokyo Open 2006: 37.05Japanese Championship 2006: 28.66Osaka Rubik's Cube contest 2007: 26.58Japan Open 2007: 30.19Kanazawa Open 2007: 36.19JRCA Hokuriku 2009: 23.96Toyama Open 2009: 22.78JRCA Hokuriku Winter 2010: 21.0030th Anniversary MegaHouse Cup 2010: 24.47Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2010: 24.31Ishikawa Gokoku Shinto Shrine Open 2010: 20.84Japan Open 2011: 25.93Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2011: 23.5920.8441.843 Sep 200519 Aug 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 0.84 away.
  • A sub-1:30 4×4 single — 53,325 people have one; it is 5.65 away.

Targets move as he improves.