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Tadayoshi Hirota (廣田忠宣)

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 65.6% of 12,294 all-time · competing since October 2006 · 2006HIRO03

Tadayoshi Hirota (廣田忠宣) has been competing for 20 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 45 moves, set at Cherry Blossom Viewing 2014, puts him in the top 65.6% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 155th in Japan. Across 5 competitions since October 2006, he has put 28 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 47.47 in October 2006 to 32.08, a 32% improvement. Tadayoshi has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 65.6% of 12,294 all-time
45 moves
signature single · Cherry Blossom Viewing 2014
28
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×3 Fewest Moves45 moves51.67
early days — 3 solves155 / 201
3×332.0840.72
top 66.0%2,282 / 3,329

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

Rubik's Cube OGU Open 2006: 47.47Kansai Open 2014: 33.38Cherry Blossom Viewing 2014: 32.08JRCA Kansai Spring 2014: 44.08JRCA Kansai Summer 2014: 47.7132.0847.7128 Oct 200620 Jul 2014

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-30 3×3 single — 177,856 people have one; it is 2.08 away.

Targets move as he improves.