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Tomoki Kubo (久保友樹)

3×3 blindfolded · top 13.8% of 12,178 all-time · competing since June 2009 · 2009KUBO01

Tomoki Kubo (久保友樹) has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 3×3 blindfolded: a personal-best single of 1:02.36, set at Osaka 2011, puts him in the top 13.8% of the 12,178 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 68th in Japan. Across 11 competitions since June 2009, he has put 168 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 87% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.61 in June 2009 to 14.36, a 39% improvement. Tomoki has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 blindfolded
best event — top 13.8% of 12,178 all-time
1:02.36
signature single · Osaka 2011
168
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 87% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×3 blindfolded1:02.361:06.93
top 13.8%68 / 282
3×314.3615.56
top 22.2%924 / 3,329
3×3 Multi-Blind7 of 7 cubes · 45:06
early days — 3 solves47 / 128
3×3 one-handed30.1540.89
top 47.0%355 / 529
4×4 blindfolded8:46.60
early days — 2 solves35 / 81
4×41:14.271:20.39
top 50.9%462 / 667
2×26.288.35
top 53.7%657 / 1,021
5×5 blindfolded19:40.00
early days — 3 solves29 / 50
5×52:16.842:21.26
top 59.3%305 / 420
Clock23.9036.34
top 74.5%236 / 263
7×78:27.198:35.29
early days — 3 solves175 / 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 Kanto Summer 2009: 23.61Japan Open 2009: 23.11JRCA Kanto Winter 2010: 16.66Kawasaki Open 2010: 16.4130th Anniversary MegaHouse Cup 2010: 15.71Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2010: 14.36Matsudo Open 2010: 15.78UT Open 2010: 15.75Ishikawa Gokoku Shinto Shrine Open 2010: 15.13Osaka 2011: 14.5914.3623.6121 Jun 200926 Mar 2011

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-1:00 3×3 blindfolded single — 1,593 people have one; it is 2.36 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 2.36 away.

Targets move as he improves.