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Keishi Takemura (竹村啓志)

2×2 · top 12.1% of 186,767 all-time · competing since September 2013 · 2013TAKE02

Keishi Takemura (竹村啓志) has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.81, set at Kansai Open 2016, puts him in the top 12.1% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 162nd in Japan. Across 6 competitions since September 2013, he has put 53 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 45.43 in September 2013 to 22.05, a 51% improvement. Keishi has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 12.1% of 186,767 all-time
2.81
signature single · Kansai Open 2016
53
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
2×22.815.15
top 12.1%162 / 1,021
3×322.0525.19
top 45.6%1,660 / 3,329

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

East Osaka 2013: 45.43Kansai Open 2014: 35.94JRCA Kansai Fall 2014: 33.52JRCA Kansai Summer 2015: 37.00JRCA Kansai Fall 2015: 24.00Kansai Open 2016: 22.0522.0545.4315 Sep 201319 Mar 2016

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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.81 away.
  • A sub-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 2.05 away.

Targets move as he improves.