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Daiki Matsumoto (松本大輝)

3×3 · top 3.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2008 · 2008MATS02

Daiki Matsumoto (松本大輝) has been competing for 18 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.36, set at World Rubik's Cube Championship 2011, puts him in the top 3.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 144th in Japan. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since May 2008, he has put 716 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 93% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 25.97 in May 2008 to 8.36, a 68% improvement. Daiki has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.4% of 284,439 all-time
8.36
signature single · World Rubik's Cube Championship 2011
716
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 93% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×38.3610.66
top 3.4%144 / 3,329
2×22.003.40
top 4.7%59 / 1,021
3×3 one-handed15.7217.38
top 9.6%92 / 529
4×438.1644.65
top 10.0%97 / 667
Pyraminx4.588.05
top 10.7%126 / 688
5×51:21.021:27.91
top 19.9%120 / 420
Megaminx1:43.051:58.32
top 36.5%185 / 313
3×3 Fewest Moves40 moves
top 48.3%127 / 201
3×3 blindfolded3:30.31
early days — 2 solves217 / 282
Square-137.381:00.76
top 61.9%191 / 245
6×64:12.884:55.75
top 69.6%159 / 209

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: 25.97Tokyo Open 2008: 21.00Japan Open 2008: 15.33Kanazawa Open 2008: 14.91Amagasaki Open 2009: 14.11Osaka Open 2009: 12.78JRCA Kanto Summer 2009: 11.80Japan Open 2009: 12.69World Rubik's Cube Championship 2009: 13.93Japan Open 2010: 11.34Kawasaki Open 2010: 10.8630th Anniversary MegaHouse Cup 2010: 10.55Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2010: 9.88Matsudo Open 2010: 9.83UT Open 2010: 9.86Osaka 2011: 9.88Matsudo Spring 2011: 9.75World Rubik's Cube Championship 2011: 8.36Matsudo Spring 2012: 8.978.3625.975 May 20088 Apr 2012

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.36 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 1.00 away.

Targets move as he improves.