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Yoshiki Chinen (知念良樹)
3×3 · top 7.3% of 288,433 all-time · competing since February 2012 · 2012CHIN01
Yoshiki Chinen (知念良樹) has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.94, set at Kyushu Open 2013, puts him in the top 7.3% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 326th in Japan. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since February 2012, he has put 167 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 64% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.05 in February 2012 to 9.94, an 18% improvement. Yoshiki has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Japan | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 9.94 | 13.52 | top 7.3% | 326 / 3,360 | |
| 4×4 | 1:00.63 | 1:15.19 | top 37.2% | 377 / 679 | |
| Pyraminx | 9.58 | 15.51 | top 49.7% | 445 / 691 | |
| 5×5 | 2:04.84 | 2:22.29 | top 52.4% | 274 / 426 | |
| 2×2 | 6.22 | 8.07 | top 53.2% | 650 / 1,026 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 1 Nov 2014Three personal bests in one day at Asian Championship 2014.
- 29 Dec 2013First sub-10 3×3: 9.94 at Kyushu Open 2013.
- 18 Feb 2012First competition: Kyushu Open 2012. A 13.63 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Hiroshima 2018 · 7 Oct 2018
- Kyushu Open 2017 · 30 Dec 2017
- Kyushu Open 2016 · 29 Dec 2016
- Kyushu Open 2015 · 27 Dec 2015
- Kyushu Open 2014 · 28 Dec 2014 — 2 personal bests set
- Asian Championship 2014 · 1 Nov 2014 — 3 personal bests set
- Kyushu Open 2013 · 29 Dec 2013 — 2 personal bests set
- Kyotanabe Open 2012 · 26 May 2012 — 1 personal best set
- Tokai Open 2012 · 29 Apr 2012
- Kyushu Open 2012 · 18 Feb 2012 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Takayuki Ookusa (大艸尊之) — met in 27 rounds, never finished ahead
- Sinpei Araki (荒木慎平) — met in 25 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Hideki Niina (新名秀樹) — met in 24 rounds, finished ahead 7 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 1.94 away.
- A sub-1:00 4×4 single — 31,087 people have one; it is 0.63 away.
Targets move as he improves.