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Yoshio Matsumoto (松本嘉夫)

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 12.2% of 12,294 all-time · competing since May 2012 · 2012MATS02

Yoshio Matsumoto (松本嘉夫) has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 29 moves, set at Ayase Autumn 2019, puts him in the top 12.2% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 55th in Japan. Across 54 competitions since May 2012, he has put 421 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 92% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 30.06 in May 2012 to 14.92, a 50% improvement. Yoshio has entered 54 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 12.2% of 12,294 all-time
29 moves
signature single · Ayase Autumn 2019
421
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 92% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×3 Fewest Moves29 moves32.67
top 12.2%55 / 201
3×3 Multi-Blind11 of 12 cubes · 55:33—
early days — 3 solves27 / 128
3×314.9218.68
top 24.2%995 / 3,329
3×3 blindfolded1:53.902:46.50
top 31.3%135 / 282
Pyraminx7.6810.24
top 33.5%335 / 688
4×41:00.661:10.72
top 37.2%368 / 667
3×3 one-handed27.9636.82
top 41.9%325 / 529
2×25.248.70
top 42.3%517 / 1,021
Skewb9.0815.61
top 49.0%217 / 338
5×52:17.772:44.61
top 59.8%310 / 420
7×75:56.466:28.53
early days — 3 solves131 / 188
4×4 blindfolded16:33.00—
early days — 1 solve64 / 81
6×65:23.17—
early days — 1 solve189 / 209

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

Rabbit and Turtle 2012: 30.06Kanto Open 2012: 26.65Japan Open 2012: 23.59Japan Contest 2012: 29.53Kanto Winter 2012: 24.55Japan Contest Spring 2013: 24.16Kawasaki Open 2013: 25.19Tachikawa 3x3 Fest 2013: 25.21UT Open 2013: 27.46Kanto Open 2014: 27.86Japan Contest Spring 2014: 22.68Sapporo Open 2014: 27.33UT Open 2014: 24.75Tachikawa 3x3 Fest 2014: 24.44Kawasaki Summer 2015: 25.59Tohoku Open 2015: 24.02UT Open 2015: 23.84Meguro 3x3 Fest 2015: 22.94Kanto Spring 2016: 23.13Kawasaki Spring 2016: 22.56Kanto Summer 2016: 25.95Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2016: 23.53Tachikawa Open 2016: 23.90Japan Open 2016: 21.53Kyushu Open 2016: 18.79Tribox Open Winter 2017: 20.97Circles Open Spring 2017: 21.08Tohoku Open 2017: 20.98Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2017: 20.92Yokohama 2017: 21.92Japan Open 2017: 19.98YRCC Open 2018: 19.66Kansai Open 2018: 14.92Tohoku 2018: 17.02Ayase 2019: 22.26Kansai Open 2019: 19.89Reiwa Anniversary 2019: 19.5114.9230.064 May 20121 Jun 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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 2.92 away.

Targets move as he improves.