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Sakura Yoshioka (吉岡さくら)

Pyraminx · top 1.2% of 129,321 all-time · competing since November 2011 · 2011YOSH03

Sakura Yoshioka (吉岡さくら) has been competing for 15 years. Her best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 2.05, set at Ayase Autumn 2019, puts her in the top 1.2% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 15th in Japan. Until July 2011, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 47 competitions since November 2011, she has put 503 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 1:13.43 in March 2012 to 16.91, a 77% improvement. Sakura has entered 47 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 1.2% of 129,321 all-time
2.05
signature single · Ayase Autumn 2019
503
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
Pyraminx2.053.37
top 1.2%15 / 688
Clock10.3812.65
top 27.0%99 / 263
3×316.9121.74
top 30.7%1,214 / 3,329
Skewb8.499.99
top 44.9%207 / 338
4×41:50.592:07.69
top 77.0%599 / 667
2×210.5014.62
top 79.8%874 / 1,021
3×3 one-handed57.341:15.29
top 82.3%484 / 529

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 Open 2012: 1:13.43Kyotanabe Open 2012: 1:18.43Kansai Star Festival 2012: 1:10.71Japan Open 2012: 50.71East Osaka 2012: 55.56West Japan Big Cube 2012: 57.69Kansai Open 2013: 45.55Cherry Blossom Viewing Open 2013: 39.52Lake-Biwa Open 2013: 41.40Kansai Star Festival 2013: 44.63East Osaka 2013: 34.68West Japan Big Cube 2013: 25.86Kansai Open 2014: 25.66JRCA Kansai Spring 2014: 24.68JRCA Kansai Summer 2014: 27.66West Japan Big Cube 2014: 24.31JRCA Kansai Fall 2014: 24.09JRCA Kansai Winter 2015: 21.50Kansai Open 2015: 23.25JRCA Kansai Spring 2015: 23.41JRCA Kansai Summer 2015: 20.44Japan Open 2015: 20.97Kansai Open 2016: 24.56JRCA Kansai Spring 2016: 23.72JRCA Kansai Summer 2016: 21.31JRCA Kansai Fall 2016: 20.94Japan Open 2016: 21.71Kansai Open 2017: 19.16Kansai Summer 2017: 16.91Tokyo Pyraminx Open 2017: 19.18Yokohama 2017: 20.41TMU Open 2018: 22.16YRCC Open 2018: 22.01Kansai Open 2018: 21.84Tribox Open Spring 2018: 19.30Omiya Bigs 2018: 19.58Kansai Summer 2018: 21.82WCA Asian Championship 2018: 22.30Tribox Open Spring 2019: 20.86Ayase Autumn 2019: 19.04Ayase 2020: 22.5316.911:18.4324 Mar 201216 Feb 2020

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.05 away.
  • A sub-10 Clock single — 8,040 people have one; it is 0.38 away.

Targets move as she improves.