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Masahiro Goto

Clock · top 11.3% of 32,048 all-time · competing since March 2023 · 2023GOTO01

Masahiro Goto has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 7.11, set at GCU Winter 2024, puts him in the top 11.3% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 46th in Japan. Across 7 competitions since March 2023, he has put 162 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 96% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.58 in March 2023 to 13.26, a 20% improvement. Masahiro has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 11.3% of 32,048 all-time
7.11
signature single · GCU Winter 2024
162
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 96% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
Clock7.118.08
top 11.3%46 / 263
Skewb4.786.09
top 16.5%82 / 338
3×313.2614.90
top 18.3%780 / 3,329
Pyraminx7.0611.01
top 28.4%297 / 688
3×3 one-handed24.8733.60
top 33.9%274 / 529
4×41:16.611:25.78
top 53.0%471 / 667
5×53:23.65
early days — 2 solves384 / 420

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

NJIT Spring 2023: 16.58Jay House of Cubes 2023: 14.83Newark's On Track 2023: 16.31Manhattan Mini B 2023: 14.29GCU Winter 2024: 13.26North Jersey Speedsolving A 2024: 13.47Newark Academy Spring 2024: 13.5213.2616.5818 Mar 20232 Jun 2024

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-6 Clock single — 2,324 people have one; it is 1.11 away.
  • A sub-4 Skewb single — 7,977 people have one; it is 0.78 away.

Targets move as he improves.