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Kosei Takaoka (高岡洸成)

3×3 · top 59.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2015 · 2015TAKA07

Kosei Takaoka (高岡洸成) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 28.10, set at Saitama 2018, puts him in the top 59.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,063rd in Japan. Across 26 competitions since November 2015, he has put 169 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:05.91 in November 2015 to 28.10, a 57% improvement. Kosei has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 59.0% of 284,439 all-time
28.10
signature single · Saitama 2018
169
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×328.1032.46
top 59.0%2,063 / 3,329
2×27.4812.35
top 64.1%741 / 1,021

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

UT Open 2015: 1:05.91JRCA Kansai Winter 2016: 54.90Kansai Open 2016: 50.36Kanto Spring 2016: 40.84Kawasaki Spring 2016: 42.13Kanto Summer 2016: 52.47Tachikawa Open 2016: 37.04Japan Open 2016: 35.99Tribox Open Winter 2017: 40.78Circles Open Spring 2017: 37.33Kansai Open 2017: 34.57Tohoku Open 2017: 39.99Meguro 2017: 31.73Tokyo Pyraminx Open 2017: 33.84Yokohama 2017: 38.44Kansai Fall 2017: 33.56Suginami Open 2017: 33.93Japan Open 2017: 38.12TMU Open 2018: 32.58YRCC Open 2018: 30.34Kansai Open 2018: 33.63Tribox Open Spring 2018: 39.08Kansai Summer 2018: 32.87WCA Asian Championship 2018: 31.16Saitama 2018: 28.10Japan Championship 2018: 28.3628.101:05.9123 Nov 201522 Dec 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-25 3×3 single — 149,621 people have one; it is 3.10 away.
  • A sub-6 2×2 single — 95,042 people have one; it is 1.48 away.

Targets move as he improves.