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Toshiya Hirohata (廣畑俊哉)

3×3 · top 15.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2007 · 2007HIRO01

Toshiya Hirohata (廣畑俊哉) has been competing for 19 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.50, set at Toyama Open 2009, puts him in the top 15.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 655th in Japan. Across 41 competitions since July 2007, he has put 454 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 91% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 4×4 best has come down from 2:38.77 in March 2008 to 43.19, a 73% improvement. Toshiya has entered 41 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 15.6% of 284,439 all-time
12.50
signature single · Toyama Open 2009
454
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 91% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×312.5014.03
top 15.6%655 / 3,329
4×443.1950.04
top 16.0%163 / 667
5×52:05.902:11.95
top 53.0%272 / 420
3×3 one-handed36.9449.70
top 60.7%417 / 529
Pyraminx11.2114.24
top 62.0%518 / 688

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 Open 2008: 2:38.77Osaka Open 2009: 1:06.63Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2010: 1:02.27JRCA Kansai Summer 2010: 54.81Ishikawa Gokoku Shinto Shrine Open 2010: 1:03.08Osaka 2011: 57.34West Japan Big Cubes 2011: 52.94Japan Open 2011: 51.93Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2011: 49.69Kyotanabe Open 2011: 46.03UT Open 2011: 49.80Hokuriku Eve 2011: 45.91Tsukuba 2012: 45.36Kansai Open 2012: 52.96Matsudo Spring 2012: 50.22Tokai Open 2012: 46.91Kawasaki Open 2012: 54.08Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2012: 48.06Japan Open 2012: 52.41UT Open 2012: 51.55Hokuriku Eve Open 2012: 48.68Cherry Blossom Viewing Open 2013: 47.94Japan Open 2013: 43.19Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2013: 46.68Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2014: 50.11Sapporo Open 2014: 54.06Asian Championship 2014: 49.56Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2015: 52.36Tohoku Open 2015: 54.78Japan Open 2015: 57.2743.192:38.7729 Mar 200821 Sep 2015

Best single per competition, 4×4. 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 0.50 away.
  • A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 3.19 away.

Targets move as he improves.