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Ken Ishibashi

3×3 · top 13.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2019 · 2019ISHI06

Ken Ishibashi has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.79, set at Star Cubing Nijmegen 2020, puts him in the top 13.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 562nd in Japan. Across 9 competitions since October 2019, he has put 236 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 30.05 in October 2019 to 11.79, a 61% improvement. Ken has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 13.2% of 284,439 all-time
11.79
signature single · Star Cubing Nijmegen 2020
236
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
3×311.7917.21
top 13.2%562 / 3,329
2×23.814.99
top 24.1%304 / 1,021
Pyraminx7.6110.59
top 32.9%331 / 688
4×41:14.501:33.85
top 51.1%464 / 667
Skewb12.7217.22
top 69.5%293 / 338

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

Seraing Open 2019: 30.05Happy New Year Cubing Hoorn 2020: 15.35Dutch Masters 2020: 16.33Annuntia Open 2020: 15.02Star Cubing Nijmegen 2020: 11.79Veenendaal Open 2020: 15.45Seraing Open 2021: 14.77Annuntia Saturday Open 2022: 13.78Brugge Saturday Open 2022: 15.8111.7930.0526 Oct 201914 May 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.79 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.81 away.

Targets move as he improves.