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Lui Kasahara (笠原琉位)

3×3 · top 16.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2018 · 2018KASA01

Lui Kasahara (笠原琉位) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.60, set at Tokyo Challenge Winter A 2023, puts him in the top 16.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 668th in Japan. Across 12 competitions since February 2018, he has put 130 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 81% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.02 in February 2018 to 12.60, a 37% improvement. Lui has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 16.0% of 284,439 all-time
12.60
signature single · Tokyo Challenge Winter A 2023
130
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 81% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×312.6015.16
top 16.0%668 / 3,329
Pyraminx7.059.99
top 28.3%294 / 688
2×24.155.97
top 28.4%355 / 1,021
4×41:30.332:01.90
top 63.8%540 / 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

TMU Open 2018: 20.02YRCC Open 2018: 17.38Tribox Open Spring 2018: 17.38Omiya Bigs 2018: 18.37Tokyo Pyraminx Returns 2018: 14.10Saitama 2018: 15.01Japan Championship 2018: 14.96Ayase 2019: 15.42Tribox Open Spring 2019: 13.49Kurukuru Summer 2019: 15.65Japan Championship 2019: 14.92Tokyo Challenge Winter A 2023: 12.6012.6020.023 Feb 201812 Feb 2023

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.60 away.
  • A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 1.05 away.

Targets move as he improves.