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Ryota Shimana (島名亮太)

3×3 · top 14.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2016 · 2016SHIM06

Ryota Shimana (島名亮太) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.23, set at Kansai Fall 2017, puts him in the top 14.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 615th in Japan. Across 4 competitions since May 2016, he has put 61 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.63 in May 2016 to 12.23, a 10% improvement. Ryota has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 14.7% of 284,439 all-time
12.23
signature single · Kansai Fall 2017
61
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×312.2313.80
top 14.7%615 / 3,329
3×3 one-handed22.9125.56
top 28.5%228 / 529
4×458.361:09.53
top 34.7%342 / 667
2×27.688.67
top 65.6%754 / 1,021
3×3 blindfolded5:03.97
early days — 1 solve256 / 282

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

JRCA Kansai Spring 2016: 13.63Kansai Small Cubes 2016: 12.81Kansai Open 2017: 13.29Kansai Fall 2017: 12.2312.2313.6329 May 201624 Sep 2017

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 0.23 away.
  • A sub-20 3×3 one-handed single — 15,081 people have one; it is 2.91 away.

Targets move as he improves.