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Atsuto Takemura (竹村篤人)

2×2 · top 0.64% of 186,767 all-time · competing since June 2013 · 2013TAKE01

Atsuto Takemura (竹村篤人) has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.04, set at Kansai Open 2018, puts him in the top 0.64% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4th in Japan. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 25 competitions since June 2013, he has put 840 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 32.21 in June 2013 to 6.33, an 80% improvement. Atsuto has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.64% of 186,767 all-time
1.04
signature single · Kansai Open 2018
840
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
2×21.041.75
top 0.64%4 / 1,021
3×36.337.89
top 0.7%32 / 3,329
Skewb2.233.76
top 2.0%8 / 338
4×428.5933.14
top 2.1%21 / 667
Pyraminx2.854.16
top 3.1%47 / 688
5×51:05.031:08.97
top 8.4%54 / 420
3×3 blindfolded56.461:30.48
top 11.9%62 / 282
Megaminx1:06.651:11.43
top 13.8%98 / 313
Square-116.3021.99
top 19.3%75 / 245
3×3 one-handed23.4329.16
top 29.9%244 / 529

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

Lake-Biwa Open 2013: 32.21East Osaka 2013: 26.50Kansai Open 2014: 13.58JRCA Kansai Fall 2014: 13.86Kansai Open 2015: 10.80JRCA Kansai Summer 2015: 11.78JRCA Kansai Fall 2015: 8.96Kansai Open 2016: 8.63JRCA Kansai Summer 2016: 8.80Japan Open 2016: 6.77Kansai Open 2017: 8.27JRCA Kansai Spring 2017: 7.87Kansai Fall 2017: 7.13Japan Open 2017: 7.38Kansai Open 2018: 7.52Tribox Open Spring 2018: 8.16WCA Asian Championship 2018: 7.38Kansai Open 2019: 6.99Tribox Open Spring 2019: 7.78Tokai Open 2019: 7.17WCA World Championship 2019: 7.33Kyoto Open 2019: 6.98Japan Championship 2019: 7.23Minatomirai 2022: 6.33Ayase Summer 2023: 7.676.3332.2115 Jun 201317 Jul 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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.04 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.33 away.

Targets move as he improves.