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Atsushi Yazawa (矢澤篤)

3×3 · top 9.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2005 · 2005YAZA01

Atsushi Yazawa (矢澤篤) has been competing for 21 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.56, set at Kansai Open 2012, puts him in the top 9.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 400th in Japan. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since September 2005, he has put 251 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 91% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 37.28 in September 2005 to 10.56, a 72% improvement. Atsushi has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.1% of 284,439 all-time
10.56
signature single · Kansai Open 2012
251
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 91% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×310.5614.10
top 9.1%400 / 3,329
4×458.111:04.92
top 34.4%338 / 667
2×26.3010.02
top 54.0%661 / 1,021
5×52:16.272:42.02
top 58.9%302 / 420

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

Japanese Championship 2005: 37.28Tokyo Open 2006: 17.41Japanese Championship 2006: 17.21Machida Open 2007: 14.76Osaka Rubik's Cube contest 2007: 17.0630th Anniversary MegaHouse Cup 2010: 15.02Tsukuba 2012: 12.83Kansai Open 2012: 10.56Matsudo Spring 2012: 12.90Japan Open 2012: 14.06Japan Contest 2012: 12.61Kawasaki Autumn 2013: 14.40UT Open 2014: 12.46Kanto Summer 2016: 11.72Tachikawa Open 2016: 14.95Japan Open 2016: 14.65Tribox Open Spring 2018: 13.86Saitama 2018: 12.98Japan Championship 2018: 12.36Ayase Autumn 2019: 12.79Japan Championship 2019: 13.71Ayase 2020: 12.30Tokyo Challenge Winter A 2023: 12.9610.5637.283 Sep 200512 Feb 2023

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.56 away.
  • A sub-50 4×4 single — 20,746 people have one; it is 8.11 away.

Targets move as he improves.