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Junichiro Taniguchi (谷口淳一郎)

3×3 · top 6.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2016 · 2016TANI05

Junichiro Taniguchi (谷口淳一郎) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.72, set at Kansai Fall 2017, puts him in the top 6.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 292nd in Japan. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since September 2016, he has put 352 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 88% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.68 in September 2016 to 9.72, a 34% improvement. Junichiro has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.7% of 284,439 all-time
9.72
signature single · Kansai Fall 2017
352
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 88% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×39.7212.75
top 6.7%292 / 3,329
Skewb3.425.80
top 7.2%37 / 338
2×22.885.78
top 12.9%173 / 1,021
7×73:14.883:19.45
top 14.7%39 / 188
5×51:16.741:22.16
top 16.6%105 / 420
6×62:15.162:26.46
top 18.1%53 / 209
4×447.0649.18
top 20.9%215 / 667
Pyraminx7.5610.00
top 32.6%326 / 688
Square-124.5832.12
top 38.3%127 / 245
Megaminx1:49.142:09.64
top 39.9%203 / 313
3×3 one-handed32.8136.10
top 52.9%382 / 529
3×3 blindfolded3:52.42—
early days — 1 solve229 / 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

JRCA Kansai Fall 2016: 14.68Kansai Small Cubes 2016: 13.74Tribox Open Winter 2017: 12.80JRCA Kansai Winter 2017: 13.18Kansai Open 2017: 13.26JRCA Kansai Spring 2017: 11.42Kansai Summer 2017: 11.30Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2017: 12.04Kansai Fall 2017: 9.72Kansai Big Cube 2017: 12.43Japan Open 2017: 10.23Kansai Open 2018: 12.42Kyoto Open 2018: 12.46Omiya Bigs 2018: 12.059.7214.6825 Sep 201610 Jun 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 1.72 away.
  • A sub-3 Skewb single — 3,646 people have one; it is 0.42 away.

Targets move as he improves.