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Shinichi Saito (斉藤伸一)

3×3 · top 93.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2016 · 2016SAIT01

Shinichi Saito (斉藤伸一) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 1:04.70, set at Japan Championship 2018, puts him in the top 93.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,042nd in Japan. Across 11 competitions since October 2016, he has put 51 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 24% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 5 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 2:01.30 in October 2016 to 1:04.70, a 47% improvement. Shinichi has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 93.3% of 284,439 all-time
1:04.70
signature single · Japan Championship 2018
51
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×31:04.701:19.61
top 93.3%3,042 / 3,329
2×217.8929.17
top 93.9%982 / 1,021
4×44:00.40
early days — 1 solve662 / 667

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

Japan Open 2016: 2:01.30Tribox Open Winter 2017: 2:08.97Circles Open Spring 2017: 1:58.80Meguro 2017: 1:35.81Japan Open 2017: 1:32.63YRCC Open 2018: 1:29.63Omiya Bigs 2018: 1:20.83Saitama 2018: 1:09.36Japan Championship 2018: 1:04.70Japan Championship 2019: 1:16.861:04.702:08.979 Oct 20162 Nov 2019

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

  • 9 Oct 2016First competition: Japan Open 2016. A 2:01.30 3×3 single to start from.

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-1:00 3×3 single — 260,367 people have one; it is 4.70 away.
  • A sub-15 2×2 single — 169,048 people have one; it is 2.89 away.

Targets move as he improves.