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Naoya Inahara (稲原直哉)

3×3 · top 7.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2010 · 2010INAH01

Naoya Inahara (稲原直哉) has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.15, set at Cherry Blossom Viewing Open 2013, puts him in the top 7.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 339th in Japan. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since March 2010, he has put 658 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 94% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 4×4 best has come down from 1:00.36 in August 2010 to 36.75, a 39% improvement. Naoya has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.9% of 284,439 all-time
10.15
signature single · Cherry Blossom Viewing Open 2013
658
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 94% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×310.1512.33
top 7.9%339 / 3,329
4×436.7543.49
top 8.4%82 / 667
Pyraminx4.717.83
top 11.5%142 / 688
2×23.025.36
top 14.5%192 / 1,021
5×51:23.031:34.79
top 21.6%129 / 420
Megaminx2:16.972:24.25
top 54.8%243 / 313
3×3 one-handed34.4438.77
top 56.3%397 / 529
6×63:44.413:55.81
top 60.3%140 / 209
7×76:11.166:38.27
top 70.3%145 / 188
3×3 Fewest Moves50 moves—
early days — 1 solve179 / 201

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

Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2010: 1:00.36Osaka 2011: 1:05.31West Japan Big Cubes 2011: 58.34Japan Open 2011: 48.84Kyotanabe Open 2011: 51.55Kansai New Year 2012: 45.88Kansai Open 2012: 44.97Tokai Open 2012: 38.40Kyotanabe Open 2012: 44.59Kansai Star Festival 2012: 44.08Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2012: 45.86Japan Open 2012: 36.75East Osaka 2012: 42.47West Japan Big Cube 2012: 42.55Kansai Open 2013: 45.50Cherry Blossom Viewing Open 2013: 41.21East Osaka 2013: 48.94Japan Open 2015: 49.06Kawasaki Spring 2016: 43.13Japan Open 2016: 41.7036.751:05.3121 Aug 20109 Oct 2016

Best single per competition, 4×4. 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 0.15 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 6.75 away.

Targets move as he improves.