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Kensuke Tsuruta (鶴田健介)

3×3 · top 82.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2008 · 2008TSUR01

Kensuke Tsuruta (鶴田健介) has been competing for 18 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 45.50, set at Kashiwa Open 2008, puts him in the top 82.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,724th in Japan. Across 3 competitions since March 2008, he has put 9 official solves on the record across one event. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:20.65 in March 2008 to 45.50, a 44% improvement. Kensuke has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 82.5% of 284,439 all-time
45.50
signature single · Kashiwa Open 2008
9
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×345.5058.19
top 82.5%2,724 / 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

Osaka Open 2008: 1:20.65Kashiwa Open 2008: 45.50Tokyo Open 2008: 46.9045.501:20.6529 Mar 20082 Aug 2008

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-40 3×3 single — 218,634 people have one; it is 5.50 away.

Targets move as he improves.