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Naoto Sato (佐藤尚人)

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 14.8% of 12,294 all-time · competing since June 2018 · 2018SATO02

Naoto Sato (佐藤尚人) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 30 moves, set at Japan Championship 2018, puts him in the top 14.8% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 63rd in Japan. Across 5 competitions since June 2018, he has put 24 official solves on the record across three events. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.18 in June 2018 to 16.60, an 18% improvement. Naoto has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 14.8% of 12,294 all-time
30 moves
signature single · Japan Championship 2018
24
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×3 Fewest Moves30 moves39.67
top 14.8%63 / 201
2×23.427.57
top 19.2%245 / 1,021
3×316.6019.65
top 29.7%1,184 / 3,329

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

Omiya Bigs 2018: 20.18Japan Championship 2018: 17.66Japan Championship 2019: 16.6016.6020.1810 Jun 20182 Nov 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-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.42 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 1.60 away.

Targets move as he improves.