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Naoto Takase (髙瀬直土)

3×3 · top 64.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2017 · 2017TAKA11

Naoto Takase (髙瀬直土) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 30.95, set at Kyoto Open 2018, puts him in the top 64.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,224th in Japan. Across 6 competitions since May 2017, he has put 28 official solves on the record across one event. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 19% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:01.23 in May 2017 to 30.95, a 49% improvement. Naoto has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 64.2% of 284,439 all-time
30.95
signature single · Kyoto Open 2018
28
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×330.9538.74
top 64.2%2,224 / 3,329

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

JRCA Kansai Spring 2017: 1:01.23Kansai Summer 2017: 49.30Kansai Fall 2017: 32.22Kobe Open 2018: 32.47Kansai Open 2018: 36.92Kyoto Open 2018: 30.9530.951:01.2328 May 201712 May 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-30 3×3 single — 177,856 people have one; it is 0.95 away.

Targets move as he improves.