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Kenya Harutaka (春高顕哉)

3×3 · top 9.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2016 · 2016HARU01

Kenya Harutaka (春高顕哉) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.67, set at Kyushu Open 2017, puts him in the top 9.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 416th in Japan. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 2 competitions since December 2016, he has put 48 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 18% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.89 in December 2016 to 10.67, a 23% improvement. Kenya has entered two competitions.

3×3
best event — top 9.5% of 284,439 all-time
10.67
signature single · Kyushu Open 2017
48
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×310.6712.62
top 9.5%416 / 3,329
2×23.594.25
top 21.3%263 / 1,021
5×51:25.541:29.27
top 23.7%142 / 420
4×449.2456.14
top 23.8%245 / 667

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

Kyushu Open 2016: 13.89Kyushu Open 2017: 10.6710.6713.8929 Dec 201630 Dec 2017

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.67 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.59 away.

Targets move as he improves.