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Kei Takahashi (高橋慶)

3×3 · top 24.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2017 · 2017TAKA06

Kei Takahashi (高橋慶) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 15.08, set at Tohoku 2019, puts him in the top 24.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,016th in Japan. Across 4 competitions since April 2017, he has put 84 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.28 in April 2017 to 15.08, a 26% improvement. Kei has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 24.7% of 284,439 all-time
15.08
signature single · Tohoku 2019
84
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×315.0816.60
top 24.7%1,016 / 3,329
4×457.781:03.43
top 34.1%335 / 667
Skewb9.5515.33
top 52.1%229 / 338
2×26.447.63
top 55.4%672 / 1,021
Pyraminx11.7114.54
top 65.4%529 / 688

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

Tohoku Open 2017: 20.28YRCC Open 2018: 18.51Tohoku 2018: 15.63Tohoku 2019: 15.0815.0820.288 Apr 201722 Sep 2019

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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 0.08 away.
  • A sub-50 4×4 single — 20,746 people have one; it is 7.78 away.

Targets move as he improves.