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Ryota Akimoto (秋元良太)

3×3 · top 34.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2015 · 2015AKIM01

Ryota Akimoto (秋元良太) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 18.21, set at Tohoku Open 2015, puts him in the top 34.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,348th in Japan. Across 1 competition since September 2015, he has put 15 official solves on the record across two events.

3×3
best event — top 34.7% of 284,439 all-time
18.21
signature single · Tohoku Open 2015
15
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×318.2121.39
top 34.7%1,348 / 3,329
2×28.3610.54
top 70.0%796 / 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 story so far

  • 13 Sep 2015First competition: Tohoku Open 2015. A 18.21 3×3 single to start from.

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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 3.21 away.
  • A sub-8 2×2 single — 126,624 people have one; it is 0.36 away.

Targets move as he improves.