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Toshio Hoshino (星野利夫)

3×3 · top 20.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2018 · 2018HOSH02

Toshio Hoshino (星野利夫) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.77, set at Tokai Summer 2025, puts him in the top 20.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 851st in Japan. Across 31 competitions since July 2018, he has put 333 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 33.10 in July 2018 to 13.77, a 58% improvement. Toshio has entered 31 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 20.2% of 284,439 all-time
13.77
signature single · Tokai Summer 2025
333
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×313.7720.76
top 20.2%851 / 3,329
Pyraminx6.9210.50
top 27.2%282 / 688
4×41:01.931:19.97
top 38.6%376 / 667
2×24.968.65
top 38.8%477 / 1,021
Clock15.6220.61
top 50.4%175 / 263
5×52:10.302:31.61
top 55.6%287 / 420
Square-135.4841.51
top 59.2%181 / 245
3×3 one-handed37.1243.55
top 61.0%419 / 529
Skewb11.3514.61
top 62.7%268 / 338
6×64:44.975:01.08
early days — 3 solves178 / 209
7×77:16.757:41.46
top 82.7%163 / 188
3×3 Fewest Moves60 moves—
early days — 1 solve197 / 201

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

Kansai Summer 2018: 33.10Japan Championship 2018: 21.55JRCA Kansai Winter 2019: 25.21Kansai Open 2019: 22.41Tribox Open Spring 2019: 25.61Reiwa Anniversary 2019: 20.38Tokai Open 2019: 25.85Nishinomiya Open 2019: 22.00Kansai Summer 2019: 21.09Kyoto Open 2019: 22.18Japan Championship 2019: 24.32Hiroshima Open 2019: 18.77Ayase 2020: 19.50Tokai Winter AM 2021: 19.93Hiroshima Spring 2023: 18.68Kanazawa Challenge Spring AM 2023: 20.45Tokai Open 2023: 20.23Otsu Biwako Autumn 2023: 20.99Tokai Challenge Beta 2024: 19.45Kanazawa 2024: 19.21Katano Milky Way 2024: 18.67Tokai Open PM 2024: 18.45Shonan PM 2024: 20.09Tokai Spring 2025: 15.85Kansai Odd and BLD 2025: 20.33Tokyo Summer 2025: 19.87Tokai Summer 2025: 13.77Katano Summer 2025: 19.8213.7733.1014 Jul 201815 Sep 2025

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 1.77 away.
  • A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 0.92 away.

Targets move as he improves.