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Ryan Kuroyama

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 33.6% of 12,294 all-time · competing since August 2010 · 2010KURO02

Ryan Kuroyama has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 36 moves, set at Caltech Spring Open 2014, puts him in the top 33.6% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 738th in the United States. Across 8 competitions since August 2010, he has put 35 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:12.83 in August 2010 to 23.79, a 67% improvement. Ryan has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 33.6% of 12,294 all-time
36 moves
signature single · Caltech Spring Open 2014
35
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 Fewest Moves36 moves
early days — 2 solves738 / 2,040
3×323.7928.25
top 49.8%29,042 / 59,724
3×3 blindfolded4:49.05
early days — 2 solves1,607 / 2,092
3×3 one-handed59.02
early days — 1 solve12,466 / 15,683

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

Nisei Week Open 2010: 1:12.83Nisei Week 2012: 25.55Nisei Week 2013: 27.94Caltech Winter Open 2014: 24.08Nisei Week 2015: 23.79Caltech Fall 2015: 26.5423.791:12.8321 Aug 201021 Nov 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 3.79 away.
  • A sub-3:00 3×3 blindfolded single — 6,381 people have one; it is 1:49.05 away.

Targets move as he improves.