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Kanako Ohta (太田佳那子)

3×3 · top 22.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2013 · 2013OHTA01

Kanako Ohta (太田佳那子) has been competing for 13 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 14.43, set at Tachikawa Open 2016, puts her in the top 22.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 938th in Japan. Across 11 competitions since June 2013, she has put 60 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one; 95% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 19.08 in June 2013 to 14.43, a 24% improvement. Kanako has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 22.5% of 284,439 all-time
14.43
signature single · Tachikawa Open 2016
60
official solves on the record
17%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 95% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×314.4317.90
top 22.5%938 / 3,329
4×41:19.151:33.44
top 55.2%488 / 667

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

Japan Open 2013: 19.08Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2013: 20.36Kanto Open 2014: 24.34Kansai Open 2014: 22.36Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2014: 23.03Asian Championship 2014: 17.15Japan Open 2015: 17.97Kanto Summer 2016: 15.78Tachikawa Open 2016: 14.43Japan Open 2016: 15.5714.4324.341 Jun 20139 Oct 2016

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 2.43 away.
  • A sub-1:00 4×4 single — 30,601 people have one; it is 19.15 away.

Targets move as she improves.