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Shinpei Koyama (小山真平)

3×3 · top 22.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2006 · 2006KOYA01

Shinpei Koyama (小山真平) has been competing for 20 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 14.38, set at UT Open 2015, puts him in the top 22.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 930th in Japan. Across 6 competitions since July 2006, he has put 53 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.33 in July 2006 to 14.38, a 38% improvement. Shinpei has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 22.3% of 284,439 all-time
14.38
signature single · UT Open 2015
53
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×314.3815.35
top 22.3%930 / 3,329
4×455.221:03.08
top 31.0%307 / 667
5×51:38.001:44.83
top 33.8%194 / 420

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

Tokyo Open 2006: 23.33Japanese Championship 2006: 25.0830th Anniversary MegaHouse Cup 2010: 22.47East Japan Big Cubes 2015: 14.96UT Open 2015: 14.38Kanto Summer 2016: 15.8114.3825.0830 Jul 200624 Jul 2016

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 2.38 away.
  • A sub-50 4×4 single — 20,746 people have one; it is 5.22 away.

Targets move as he improves.