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Toshihiro Shirakawa (白川俊博)

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 23.4% of 12,294 all-time · competing since November 2011 · 2011SHIR03

Toshihiro Shirakawa (白川俊博) has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 33 moves, set at Kanto FMC 2015, puts him in the top 23.4% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 76th in Japan. Across 24 competitions since November 2011, he has put 173 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 79% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.91 in November 2011 to 16.53, a 34% improvement. Toshihiro has entered 24 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 23.4% of 12,294 all-time
33 moves
signature single · Kanto FMC 2015
173
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 79% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×3 Fewest Moves33 moves
top 23.4%76 / 201
3×316.5322.23
top 29.5%1,179 / 3,329
4×41:30.631:52.90
top 64.0%541 / 667
2×27.838.76
top 66.7%764 / 1,021
5×52:45.253:02.45
top 72.7%354 / 420
3×3 blindfolded5:07.94
early days — 2 solves257 / 282
3×3 one-handed55.561:02.89
top 81.1%478 / 529
Pyraminx17.6922.26
top 89.2%650 / 688
Megaminx4:00.584:25.73
top 90.1%307 / 313
7×78:22.638:52.87
early days — 3 solves174 / 188
6×66:05.536:43.86
early days — 3 solves194 / 209

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

UT Open 2011: 24.91Rabbit and Turtle 2012: 20.58Kawasaki Open 2012: 22.27Japan Contest 2012: 17.59UT Open 2012: 21.34Kanto Winter 2012: 16.84Rabbit And Turtle 2013: 21.13Japan Contest Spring 2013: 23.44Japan Open 2013: 17.72Kawasaki Autumn 2013: 18.91UT Open 2013: 22.53Asian Championship 2014: 21.46UT Open 2014: 22.00Kawasaki Summer 2015: 23.19East Japan Big Cubes 2015: 22.09Japan Open 2015: 19.78UT Open 2015: 20.31Meguro 3x3 Fest 2015: 16.53Kawasaki Spring 2016: 19.86Japan Open 2016: 22.6416.5324.9127 Nov 20119 Oct 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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 1.53 away.
  • A sub-1:30 4×4 single — 53,325 people have one; it is 0.63 away.

Targets move as he improves.