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Wataru Hashimura (端村航)

3×3 · top 0.91% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2008 · 2008HASH02

Wataru Hashimura (端村航) has been competing for 18 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.56, set at Kansai Star Festival 2013, puts him in the top 0.91% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 38th in Japan. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 79 competitions since December 2008, he has put 2,191 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 86% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.84 in December 2008 to 6.56, a 56% improvement. Wataru has entered 79 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.91% of 284,439 all-time
6.56
signature single · Kansai Star Festival 2013
2,191
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 86% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×36.569.33
top 0.91%38 / 3,329
2×21.562.32
top 2.4%32 / 1,021
Skewb2.935.63
top 4.7%21 / 338
Pyraminx3.584.85
top 5.8%75 / 688
Megaminx52.381:01.32
top 6.1%46 / 313
3×3 Fewest Moves26 moves31.67
top 6.2%33 / 201
4×436.8142.97
top 8.5%84 / 667
3×3 one-handed17.2220.20
top 13.1%119 / 529
5×51:14.381:21.51
top 14.8%93 / 420
6×62:09.232:24.61
top 15.0%48 / 209
Clock8.029.53
top 15.3%54 / 263
Square-114.8319.83
top 16.0%65 / 245
7×73:25.163:56.00
top 18.1%47 / 188
3×3 blindfolded1:44.442:18.35
top 28.2%125 / 282

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

Kanazawa Open 2008: 14.84Amagasaki Open 2009: 14.58Osaka Open 2009: 13.91JRCA Kansai Spring 2009: 11.47JRCA Kansai Summer 2009: 13.94Doshisha Open 2009: 11.63Japan Open 2010: 10.81JRCA Kansai Spring 2010: 11.8130th Anniversary MegaHouse Cup 2010: 11.00JRCA Kansai Summer 2010: 11.06UT Open 2010: 10.43Kansai New Year 2011: 7.83Osaka 2011: 9.81Kansai Open 2012: 9.53Kyotanabe Open 2012: 9.55Kansai Star Festival 2012: 10.66Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2012: 9.22Asian Championship 2012: 9.97East Osaka 2012: 9.40West Japan Big Cube 2012: 9.43Rabbit And Turtle 2013: 9.18Kansai Open 2013: 8.81Japan Open 2013: 9.53Lake-Biwa Open 2013: 9.58Kansai Star Festival 2013: 6.56Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2013: 9.02East Osaka 2013: 9.78West Japan Big Cube 2013: 9.31UT Open 2013: 9.03Kyushu Open 2013: 9.50JRCA Kansai Winter 2014: 9.44Kanto Open 2014: 9.59Kansai Open 2014: 8.56JRCA Kansai Spring 2014: 9.08JRCA Kansai Summer 2014: 9.78Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2014: 10.03West Japan Big Cube 2014: 8.77Asian Championship 2014: 8.83UT Open 2014: 9.40JRCA Kansai Fall 2014: 9.47Kyushu Open 2014: 9.03JRCA Kansai Winter 2015: 8.41Kansai Open 2015: 8.41JRCA Kansai Spring 2015: 8.46JRCA Kansai Summer 2015: 9.33Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2015: 9.16Japan Open 2015: 8.55JRCA Kansai Fall 2015: 10.33Kyushu Open 2015: 8.03JRCA Kansai Winter 2016: 9.33Kansai Open 2016: 7.00Kanto Spring 2016: 9.50JRCA Kansai Spring 2016: 7.30JRCA Kansai Summer 2016: 8.68Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2016: 8.83JRCA Kansai Fall 2016: 9.28Asian Championship 2016: 8.54Japan Open 2016: 9.03Kansai Small Cubes 2016: 8.45Kyushu Open 2016: 8.26JRCA Kansai Winter 2017: 9.06Kansai Open 2017: 9.70JRCA Kansai Spring 2017: 8.23Kansai Summer 2017: 8.46Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2017: 9.96Kansai Fall 2017: 9.00Kansai Big Cube 2017: 10.14Japan Open 2017: 7.65Kobe Open 2018: 8.63Kansai Open 2018: 9.93Tribox Open Spring 2018: 10.14Kyoto Open 2018: 8.90Omiya Bigs 2018: 10.16Tohoku 2018: 9.59Tokyo Pyraminx Returns 2018: 9.08Japan Championship 2018: 10.50Ayase 2019: 8.14Tribox Open Spring 2019: 8.60Japan Championship 2019: 10.366.5614.8420 Dec 20082 Nov 2019

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.56 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.56 away.

Targets move as he improves.