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Sho Nishino (西野翔)

3×3 · top 4.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2015 · 2015NISH04

Sho Nishino (西野翔) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.84, set at Kansai Open 2017, puts him in the top 4.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 187th in Japan. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since July 2015, he has put 199 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.77 in July 2015 to 8.84, a 44% improvement. Sho has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.5% of 284,439 all-time
8.84
signature single · Kansai Open 2017
199
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×38.8410.57
top 4.5%187 / 3,329
3×3 one-handed15.4216.22
top 9.0%85 / 529
4×446.3252.26
top 20.0%203 / 667
2×24.447.64
top 32.2%409 / 1,021
5×51:45.901:54.43
top 39.8%219 / 420
Pyraminx10.3416.44
top 55.7%482 / 688
7×77:15.45
early days — 1 solve162 / 188

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 Summer 2015: 15.77JRCA Kansai Summer 2016: 11.55JRCA Kansai Fall 2016: 12.18Japan Open 2016: 11.76Kansai Small Cubes 2016: 10.07JRCA Kansai Winter 2017: 10.23Kansai Open 2017: 8.84JRCA Kansai Spring 2017: 10.12Kansai Summer 2017: 9.63Nishinomiya Open 2019: 11.72Kyoto Open 2019: 9.94Hiroshima Open 2019: 9.53Kanazawa Open 2020: 9.268.8415.7725 Jul 201523 Feb 2020

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.84 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 5,987 people have one; it is 0.42 away.

Targets move as he improves.