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Masahiro Yamakita (山北真大)
Skewb · top 6.4% of 73,281 all-time · competing since September 2015 · 2015YAMA05
Masahiro Yamakita (山北真大) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 3.26, set at Kansai Small Cubes 2016, puts him in the top 6.4% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 32nd in Japan. Until February 2014, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since September 2015, he has put 127 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 93% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.68 in September 2015 to 12.91, a 31% improvement. Masahiro has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Japan | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skewb | 3.26 | 4.73 | top 6.4% | 32 / 338 | |
| 3×3 | 12.91 | 16.43 | top 17.1% | 722 / 3,329 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.91 | 14.45 | top 19.3% | 209 / 688 | |
| 2×2 | 3.62 | 6.53 | top 21.7% | 271 / 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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 29 May 2016First sub-15 3×3: 12.91 at JRCA Kansai Spring 2016.
- 19 Mar 2016Three personal bests in one day at Kansai Open 2016.
- 21 Sep 2015First competition: Japan Open 2015. A 18.68 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Japan Championship 2018 · 22 Dec 2018
- Japan Open 2017 · 16 Dec 2017
- Circles Open Spring 2017 · 4 Mar 2017
- Tribox Open Winter 2017 · 14 Jan 2017
- Kansai Small Cubes 2016 · 12 Nov 2016 — 1 personal best set
- Japan Open 2016 · 9 Oct 2016 — 1 personal best set
- Tachikawa Open 2016 · 4 Sep 2016 — 2 personal bests set
- Kanto Summer 2016 · 24 Jul 2016 — 1 personal best set
- JRCA Kansai Spring 2016 · 29 May 2016 — 2 personal bests set
- Kawasaki Spring 2016 · 8 May 2016 — 1 personal best set
- Kansai Open 2016 · 19 Mar 2016 — 3 personal bests set
- UT Open 2015 · 23 Nov 2015 — 1 personal best set
- Japan Open 2015 · 21 Sep 2015
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.
- Nobuaki Suga (菅信昭) — met in 21 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
- Yuhei Takagi (高木佑平) — met in 18 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
- Taiga Takaoka (高岡汰虎) — met in 18 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
Next targets
- A sub-3 Skewb single — 3,646 people have one; it is 0.26 away.
- A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.91 away.
Targets move as he improves.