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Kyota Shimada (嶋田恭大)

3×3 · top 19.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2016 · 2016SHIM05

Kyota Shimada (嶋田恭大) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.59, set at JRCA Kansai Winter 2017, puts him in the top 19.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 829th in Japan. Across 7 competitions since May 2016, he has put 109 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 77% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.61 in May 2016 to 13.59, a 13% improvement. Kyota has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 19.5% of 284,439 all-time
13.59
signature single · JRCA Kansai Winter 2017
109
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 77% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×313.5914.96
top 19.5%829 / 3,329
2×24.315.77
top 30.5%386 / 1,021
4×41:23.641:28.22
top 58.8%509 / 667
3×3 one-handed39.7245.55
top 64.9%436 / 529
5×52:47.712:55.93
top 73.8%358 / 420
Square-148.1359.77
top 74.3%214 / 245

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

JRCA Kansai Spring 2016: 15.61JRCA Kansai Summer 2016: 16.81Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2016: 17.61JRCA Kansai Fall 2016: 14.18JRCA Kansai Winter 2017: 13.59JRCA Kansai Spring 2017: 14.19Kansai Big Cube 2017: 15.5913.5917.6129 May 201625 Nov 2017

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.59 away.
  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.31 away.

Targets move as he improves.