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Akimi Hara (原明海)

3×3 · top 25.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2014 · 2014HARA03

Akimi Hara (原明海) has been competing for 12 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 15.40, set at Yokohama 2017, puts her in the top 25.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,058th in Japan. Across 10 competitions since October 2014, she has put 86 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 78% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 24.55 in October 2014 to 15.40, a 37% improvement. Akimi has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 25.8% of 284,439 all-time
15.40
signature single · Yokohama 2017
86
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 78% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×315.4019.96
top 25.8%1,058 / 3,329
4×41:08.571:14.35
top 45.4%420 / 667
3×3 one-handed31.0234.72
top 48.9%365 / 529
3×3 blindfolded6:50.46
early days — 1 solve274 / 282

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

Japan Contest Autumn 2014: 24.55Asian Championship 2014: 24.43Kansai Open 2015: 20.33Japan Contest Spring 2015: 16.41Kawasaki Spring 2016: 19.75Tribox Open Winter 2017: 17.40Circles Open Spring 2017: 19.91U.R.A. Easter Open 2017: 17.46World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 16.77Yokohama 2017: 15.4015.4024.5513 Oct 201417 Sep 2017

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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 0.40 away.
  • A sub-1:00 4×4 single — 30,601 people have one; it is 8.57 away.

Targets move as she improves.