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Minato Imai (今井港)

Pyraminx · top 0.83% of 129,321 all-time · competing since May 2011 · 2011IMAI01

Minato Imai (今井港) has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.80, set at Tokyo Pyraminx Open 2015, puts him in the top 0.83% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 9th in Japan. Until April 2012, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 27 competitions since May 2011, he has put 508 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His Pyraminx best has come down from 9.43 in January 2012 to 1.80, an 81% improvement. Minato has entered 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.83% of 129,321 all-time
1.80
signature single · Tokyo Pyraminx Open 2015
508
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
Pyraminx1.803.81
top 0.83%9 / 688
3×3 Fewest Moves27 moves30.33
top 8.0%40 / 201
4×437.8742.17
top 9.6%95 / 667
3×311.4312.82
top 11.9%510 / 3,329
Square-113.8817.36
top 13.9%58 / 245
Skewb4.788.68
top 16.5%82 / 338
2×24.096.41
top 27.6%344 / 1,021
3×3 blindfolded2:22.81—
top 41.0%164 / 282
5×51:48.681:55.52
top 41.7%230 / 420
Megaminx2:34.033:00.05
top 63.2%265 / 313
7×75:55.306:50.52
early days — 3 solves130 / 188
6×64:12.304:36.02
early days — 3 solves157 / 209

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

Kansai New Year 2012: 9.43East Osaka 2012: 4.36Kansai Open 2013: 3.84Lake-Biwa Open 2013: 5.11Kansai Open 2014: 3.58JRCA Kansai Summer 2014: 3.75Asian Championship 2014: 3.15JRCA Kansai Fall 2014: 3.09Tokyo Pyraminx Open 2015: 1.80Kansai Open 2015: 4.02JRCA Kansai Summer 2015: 3.94Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2015: 2.63JRCA Kansai Fall 2015: 3.47JRCA Kansai Spring 2016: 2.88JRCA Kansai Summer 2016: 3.50Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2016: 4.09JRCA Kansai Winter 2017: 2.09Kansai Open 2018: 4.20Kansai Open 2019: 2.071.809.4314 Jan 201220 Apr 2019

Best single per competition, Pyraminx. 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-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.80 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 7.87 away.

Targets move as he improves.