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Kentaro Nishi (西賢太郎)

Pyraminx · top 1.1% of 129,321 all-time · competing since November 2006 · 2006NISH01

Kentaro Nishi (西賢太郎) has been competing for 20 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.96, set at Ayase Autumn 2019, puts him in the top 1.1% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 12th in Japan. Until July 2011, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 54 competitions since November 2006, he has put 844 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 87% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 26.34 in November 2006 to 9.58, a 64% improvement. Kentaro has entered 54 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 1.1% of 129,321 all-time
1.96
signature single · Ayase Autumn 2019
844
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 87% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
Pyraminx1.962.88
top 1.1%12 / 688
3×3 Fewest Moves26 moves33.00
top 6.2%33 / 201
3×39.5811.36
top 6.3%269 / 3,329
2×22.384.12
top 7.8%103 / 1,021
4×448.6953.83
top 23.0%235 / 667
Megaminx1:29.561:39.44
top 27.9%153 / 313
Clock11.8312.83
top 34.1%118 / 263
3×3 blindfolded6:19.74—
early days — 1 solve269 / 282

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 2006: 26.34Machida Open 2007: 17.82Kawasaki Open 2008: 13.94JRCA Kanto Summer 2009: 14.15Japan Open 2009: 14.06World Rubik's Cube Championship 2009: 12.72JRCA Kanto Winter 2010: 11.41Japan Open 2010: 10.71Kawasaki Open 2010: 9.9630th Anniversary MegaHouse Cup 2010: 13.41Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2010: 13.03Matsudo Open 2010: 13.00UT Open 2010: 9.58Osaka 2011: 10.06Matsudo Spring 2011: 10.93Matsudo Autumn 2011: 11.52UT Open 2011: 11.63Hokuriku Eve 2011: 10.83Tsukuba 2012: 11.31Matsudo Spring 2012: 11.63Kawasaki Open 2012: 11.00Japan Open 2012: 10.68Asian Championship 2012: 11.38Japan Contest 2012: 10.16UT Open 2012: 10.50Rabbit And Turtle 2013: 11.02Japan Open 2013: 10.83Tachikawa 3x3 Fest 2013: 9.65UT Open 2013: 12.71Kanto Open 2014: 11.19Japan Contest Spring 2014: 10.40Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2014: 12.18Asian Championship 2014: 10.33UT Open 2014: 11.18Tachikawa 3x3 Fest 2014: 11.31Kawasaki Spring 2016: 12.43Tribox Open Winter 2017: 13.50Suginami Open 2017: 11.00Japan Open 2017: 11.72TMU Open 2018: 11.13Tribox Open Spring 2018: 11.52WCA Asian Championship 2018: 12.97Tokyo Pyraminx Returns 2018: 11.75Tribox Open Spring 2019: 11.42Reiwa Anniversary 2019: 11.04Ayase Autumn 2019: 10.589.5826.3412 Nov 200621 Sep 2019

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-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.96 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.58 away.

Targets move as he improves.