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Hiroto Ueda (上田浩登)

4×4 · top 15.9% of 83,917 all-time · competing since September 2005 · 2005UEDA01

Hiroto Ueda (上田浩登) has been competing for 21 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 43.14, set at Kobe Open 2018, puts him in the top 15.9% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 159th in Japan. Across 46 competitions since September 2005, he has put 415 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 79% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 2:01.01 in September 2005 to 13.11, an 89% improvement. Hiroto has entered 46 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 15.9% of 83,917 all-time
43.14
signature single · Kobe Open 2018
415
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 79% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
4×443.1452.70
top 15.9%159 / 667
3×313.1115.68
top 17.8%750 / 3,329
2×23.415.65
top 19.1%241 / 1,021
Clock10.0311.87
top 25.2%87 / 263
Pyraminx7.9311.99
top 35.6%360 / 688
3×3 blindfolded3:11.30—
top 55.6%212 / 282
Megaminx2:32.252:47.06
early days — 3 solves263 / 313
3×3 one-handed41.9447.28
top 68.0%451 / 529
3×3 Fewest Moves48 moves—
early days — 1 solve168 / 201

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: 2:01.01Tokyo Open 2006: 48.42Machida Open 2007: 22.21Japan Open 2007: 22.06Kawasaki Open 2008: 15.91Osaka Open 2008: 18.40Kashiwa Open 2008: 16.63Tokyo Open 2008: 15.38Japan Open 2008: 17.55Osaka Open 2009: 17.88JRCA Kanto Summer 2009: 14.19JRCA Kanto Winter 2010: 16.84Kawasaki Open 2010: 17.15UT Open 2011: 17.56Tsukuba 2012: 18.33Matsudo Spring 2012: 17.41Kawasaki Open 2012: 17.78Kanto Open 2012: 15.30Japan Open 2012: 16.75Japan Contest 2012: 23.33UT Open 2012: 30.31Rabbit And Turtle 2013: 22.25Kansai Open 2013: 29.30Japan Contest Spring 2013: 15.40Kawasaki Autumn 2013: 16.30Asian Championship 2014: 14.36Japan Contest Spring 2015: 14.19Tohoku Open 2015: 13.96Japan Open 2015: 15.93Japan Open 2016: 15.25Yokohama 2017: 14.70Japan Open 2017: 14.38TMU Open 2018: 14.26Kobe Open 2018: 13.11YRCC Open 2018: 15.81Tribox Open Spring 2018: 16.93Japan Championship 2018: 14.81Welcome Back Ayase Winter 2020: 14.1013.112:01.013 Sep 200526 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-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 3.14 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.11 away.

Targets move as he improves.