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Tatsuya Hashimoto (橋本達哉)

3×3 · top 20.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2006 · 2006HASH02

Tatsuya Hashimoto (橋本達哉) has been competing for 20 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.80, set at Osaka Open 2008, puts him in the top 20.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 856th in Japan. Across 6 competitions since March 2006, he has put 84 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 90% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. That figure sets aside his 3 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.21 in March 2006 to 13.80, a 28% improvement. Tatsuya has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 20.3% of 284,439 all-time
13.80
signature single · Osaka Open 2008
84
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 90% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×313.8017.82
top 20.3%856 / 3,329
Pyraminx7.5013.33
top 32.0%323 / 688
4×41:23.591:33.26
top 58.8%508 / 667
5×52:28.382:50.52
top 65.0%329 / 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

Osaka Rubik's Cube contest 2006: 19.21Japanese Championship 2006: 16.40Osaka Rubik's Cube contest 2007: 15.30Japan Open 2007: 15.63Osaka Open 2008: 13.80Kashiwa Open 2008: 13.9013.8019.215 Mar 20065 May 2008

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 1.80 away.
  • A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 1.50 away.

Targets move as he improves.