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Masaki Kouno (河野雅貴)

3×3 · top 10.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2015 · 2015KOUN01

Masaki Kouno (河野雅貴) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.86, set at Japan Open 2017, puts him in the top 10.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 434th in Japan. Across 6 competitions since December 2015, he has put 99 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 18% around a typical one; 97% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Masaki has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 10.1% of 284,439 all-time
10.86
signature single · Japan Open 2017
99
official solves on the record
18%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 97% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×310.8615.55
top 10.1%434 / 3,329
2×24.127.26
top 28.0%348 / 1,021
Square-120.8427.96
top 29.9%105 / 245
4×454.5758.08
top 30.2%300 / 667
Megaminx2:04.582:13.71
top 48.3%229 / 313

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

Kyushu Open 2015: 11.91Kansai Open 2016: 13.75Japan Open 2016: 15.29Kansai Fall 2017: 13.34Japan Open 2017: 10.86Japan Championship 2018: 14.1210.8615.2927 Dec 201522 Dec 2018

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 0.86 away.
  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.12 away.

Targets move as he improves.