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Naoko Ogino (荻野奈緒子)

Square-1 · top 12.5% of 25,272 all-time · competing since March 2014 · 2014OGIN01

Naoko Ogino (荻野奈緒子) has been competing for 12 years. Her best event is the Square-1: a personal-best single of 13.27, set at JRCA Kansai Winter 2016, puts her in the top 12.5% of the 25,272 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 51st in Japan. Across 16 competitions since March 2014, she has put 124 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, her 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. Her 3×3 best has come down from 23.34 in March 2014 to 17.88, a 23% improvement. Naoko has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

Square-1
best event — top 12.5% of 25,272 all-time
13.27
signature single · JRCA Kansai Winter 2016
124
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
Square-113.2718.54
top 12.5%51 / 245
3×317.8822.30
top 33.7%1,313 / 3,329
3×3 blindfolded2:51.803:12.66
top 50.1%191 / 282
4×4 blindfolded17:43.00
early days — 1 solve66 / 81
2×215.3017.71
top 90.9%968 / 1,021

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

Kansai Open 2014: 23.34JRCA Kansai Spring 2014: 18.61Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2014: 20.75Asian Championship 2014: 20.50JRCA Kansai Fall 2014: 24.33JRCA Kansai Winter 2015: 17.88Kansai Open 2015: 20.27JRCA Kansai Spring 2015: 24.84JRCA Kansai Summer 2015: 20.63Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2015: 19.18Japan Open 2015: 22.8417.8824.8421 Mar 201421 Sep 2015

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-12 Square-1 single — 2,502 people have one; it is 1.27 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 2.88 away.

Targets move as she improves.