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Yoshinobu Kowase (小和瀬慶信)

3×3 · top 49.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2017 · 2017KOWA01

Yoshinobu Kowase (小和瀬慶信) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 23.46, set at Japan Championship 2019, puts him in the top 49.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,768th in Japan. Across 3 competitions since January 2017, he has put 15 official solves on the record across one event. His 3×3 best has come down from 29.48 in January 2017 to 23.46, a 20% improvement. Yoshinobu has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 49.1% of 284,439 all-time
23.46
signature single · Japan Championship 2019
15
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×323.4630.71
top 49.1%1,768 / 3,329

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

Tribox Open Winter 2017: 29.48Ayase Autumn 2019: 28.48Japan Championship 2019: 23.4623.4629.4814 Jan 20172 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-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 3.46 away.

Targets move as he improves.