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Yotaro Shiba (芝陽太郎)

3×3 · top 40.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2015 · 2015SHIB02

Yotaro Shiba (芝陽太郎) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 20.10, set at Ayase Autumn 2019, puts him in the top 40.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,501st in Japan. Across 13 competitions since August 2015, he has put 69 official solves on the record across one event. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one; 95% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 56.77 in August 2015 to 20.10, a 65% improvement. Yotaro has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 40.2% of 284,439 all-time
20.10
signature single · Ayase Autumn 2019
69
official solves on the record
17%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 95% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×320.1026.73
top 40.2%1,501 / 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

East Japan Big Cubes 2015: 56.77UT Open 2015: 44.31Meguro 3x3 Fest 2015: 39.46Kanto Spring 2016: 26.28Kawasaki Spring 2016: 28.90Kanto Summer 2016: 31.81Japan Open 2016: 28.85Tribox Open Winter 2017: 26.56Meguro 2017: 21.16Tokyo Pyraminx Open 2017: 23.98Kurukuru Summer 2019: 24.11Ayase Autumn 2019: 20.10Japan Championship 2019: 24.2820.1056.778 Aug 20152 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 0.10 away.

Targets move as he improves.