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Akiko Tabuchi (田渕明子)

3×3 · top 75.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2008 · 2008TABU01

Akiko Tabuchi (田渕明子) has been competing for 18 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 38.81, set at Asian Championship 2014, puts her in the top 75.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,536th in Japan. Across 10 competitions since May 2008, she has put 47 official solves on the record across one event. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 1:02.09 in May 2008 to 38.81, a 37% improvement. Akiko has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 75.5% of 284,439 all-time
38.81
signature single · Asian Championship 2014
47
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×338.8147.04
top 75.5%2,536 / 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

Kashiwa Open 2008: 1:02.09Japan Open 2008: 48.50Osaka Open 2009: 47.15World Rubik's Cube Championship 2009: 53.9030th Anniversary MegaHouse Cup 2010: 51.30Asian Championship 2010: 39.94Osaka 2011: 39.94World Rubik's Cube Championship 2011: 41.41United States National Championships 2012: 43.33Asian Championship 2014: 38.8138.811:02.095 May 20081 Nov 2014

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-30 3×3 single — 177,856 people have one; it is 8.81 away.

Targets move as she improves.