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Ryota Hiraoka (平岡遼太)

3×3 · top 22.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2017 · 2017HIRA03

Ryota Hiraoka (平岡遼太) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 14.33, set at Saitama 2018, puts him in the top 22.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 921st in Japan. Across 5 competitions since September 2017, he has put 46 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 29.24 in September 2017 to 14.33, a 51% improvement. Ryota has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 22.1% of 284,439 all-time
14.33
signature single · Saitama 2018
46
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×314.3315.39
top 22.1%921 / 3,329
3×3 blindfolded2:12.80
top 37.5%151 / 282
Megaminx1:45.131:48.57
top 37.6%191 / 313
3×3 one-handed27.0131.60
top 39.4%309 / 529
Square-11:01.13
early days — 1 solve233 / 245

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

Yokohama 2017: 29.24YRCC Open 2018: 15.24Omiya Bigs 2018: 14.47Saitama 2018: 14.33Japan Championship 2018: 15.0714.3329.2417 Sep 201722 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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 2.33 away.
  • A sub-2:00 3×3 blindfolded single — 4,077 people have one; it is 12.80 away.

Targets move as he improves.