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Hugo Kinichi Briner

3×3 · top 5.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2019 · 2019BRIN04

Hugo Kinichi Briner has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.34, set at Queensland Open 2022, puts him in the top 5.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 518th in Australia. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since September 2019, he has put 191 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.50 in September 2019 to 9.34, a 52% improvement. Hugo has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.7% of 284,439 all-time
9.34
signature single · Queensland Open 2022
191
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 73% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
3×39.3411.24
top 5.7%518 / 11,709
Megaminx52.3259.05
top 6.1%81 / 1,277
2×22.205.12
top 6.2%452 / 8,567
4×444.6649.49
top 17.9%439 / 3,051
5×51:20.241:33.36
top 19.3%256 / 1,356
Pyraminx6.708.93
top 25.4%1,286 / 5,993
Skewb6.3410.98
top 28.5%778 / 3,534
Square-123.0236.93
top 34.7%333 / 899
6×62:51.092:57.18
top 36.6%230 / 641
3×3 one-handed26.5432.22
top 38.2%887 / 2,659
7×74:32.014:42.75
top 41.8%201 / 523

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

Gold Coast Spring 2019: 19.50Northside Cube Days 2020: 12.17Brisbane Autumn 2022: 10.13Brisbane's 20 in 21 in 2022: 10.91Queensland Open 2022: 9.349.3419.5021 Sep 201923 Jul 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.34 away.
  • A sub-50 Megaminx single — 1,776 people have one; it is 2.32 away.

Targets move as he improves.