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Daniel Junji Kudo

3×3 · top 4.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2014 · 2014KUDO01

Daniel Junji Kudo has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.92, set at Fecap Open 2018, puts him in the top 4.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 211th in Brazil. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since January 2014, he has put 437 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 50.74 in January 2014 to 8.92, an 82% improvement. Daniel has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.7% of 284,439 all-time
8.92
signature single · Fecap Open 2018
437
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 57% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingBrazil
3×38.9210.78
top 4.7%211 / 9,644
2×22.284.96
top 6.9%217 / 5,137
Pyraminx5.567.90
top 16.8%397 / 3,208
4×445.1550.62
top 18.5%228 / 1,855
Megaminx1:26.861:49.10
top 26.1%203 / 1,062
3×3 one-handed26.6431.35
top 38.4%585 / 1,992
5×51:50.701:54.64
top 43.1%256 / 845
6×63:11.483:16.51
top 46.5%112 / 307
7×75:42.525:56.47
top 63.3%130 / 269
3×3 Fewest Moves51 moves
early days — 2 solves292 / 360

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

Brasileiro Etapa de Verão 2014: 50.74SESC Santo Amaro 2014: 19.42São Paulo Open 2014: 15.02Brasileiro Etapa de Inverno 2014: 14.77Nova Odessa Open 2014: 13.58Joana D'Arc Open 2014: 12.88Pré-Mundial 2015: 11.72FECAP Open 2015: 12.65World Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 9.16Fecap Open 2018: 8.928.9250.7431 Jan 201420 May 2018

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 0.92 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.28 away.

Targets move as he improves.