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Kotaro Terada (寺田晃太朗)

Pyraminx · top 7.7% of 129,321 all-time · competing since July 2010 · 2010TERA01

Kotaro Terada (寺田晃太朗) has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 4.01, set at Tokyo Pyraminx Open 2017, puts him in the top 7.7% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 97th in Japan. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 69 competitions since July 2010, he has put 695 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 76% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.96 in August 2010 to 10.39, a 45% improvement. Kotaro has entered 69 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 7.7% of 129,321 all-time
4.01
signature single · Tokyo Pyraminx Open 2017
695
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 76% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
Pyraminx4.015.49
top 7.7%97 / 688
3×310.3912.70
top 8.6%371 / 3,329
2×23.184.99
top 16.4%217 / 1,021
3×3 Fewest Moves31 moves34.33
top 17.4%70 / 201
3×3 blindfolded1:41.47—
top 27.1%122 / 282
4×457.001:05.54
top 33.1%326 / 667
Clock12.4915.77
top 37.4%138 / 263
5×51:50.772:07.19
top 43.1%237 / 420
3×3 one-handed30.5239.56
top 47.8%359 / 529
Square-136.721:09.95
top 60.9%187 / 245
Megaminx3:59.315:17.96
top 89.9%305 / 313

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

Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2010: 18.96UT Open 2010: 19.65Osaka 2011: 17.80Matsudo Spring 2011: 17.11Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2011: 15.44Matsudo Autumn 2011: 17.31UT Open 2011: 17.44Hokuriku Eve 2011: 14.61Tsukuba 2012: 14.36Kansai Open 2012: 13.44Matsudo Spring 2012: 13.21Tokai Open 2012: 12.02Rabbit and Turtle 2012: 12.69Kawasaki Open 2012: 12.69Kanto Open 2012: 12.44UT Open 2012: 13.86Asian Championship 2014: 11.69Tokyo Pyraminx Open 2015: 13.69East Japan Big Cubes 2015: 13.00Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2015: 16.03Tohoku Open 2015: 11.80Japan Open 2015: 13.52JRCA Kansai Winter 2016: 12.40Kansai Open 2016: 12.52Cherry Blossom Viewing 2016: 13.30Kawasaki Spring 2016: 13.36Kanto Summer 2016: 14.01Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2016: 10.75Tachikawa Open 2016: 16.25Asian Championship 2016: 13.06Japan Open 2016: 12.89Kyushu Open 2016: 11.82Tribox Open Winter 2017: 14.61Circles Open Spring 2017: 12.96Tohoku Open 2017: 12.82Meguro 2017: 12.48World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 11.51Tokyo Pyraminx Open 2017: 13.90Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2017: 12.70Japan Open 2017: 11.40Kyushu Open 2017: 11.98TMU Open 2018: 13.14Kansai Open 2018: 10.39Omiya Bigs 2018: 11.99WCA Asian Championship 2018: 14.22Tohoku 2018: 13.01Tokyo Pyraminx Returns 2018: 13.56Hiroshima 2018: 13.25Hawaii 2018: 12.98Japan Championship 2018: 10.83Tribox Open Spring 2019: 13.83Japan Championship 2019: 14.4110.3919.6521 Aug 20102 Nov 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-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.01 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.39 away.

Targets move as he improves.