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Satoru Umetsu (梅津諭)

4×4 · top 24.2% of 83,917 all-time · competing since September 2016 · 2016UMET02

Satoru Umetsu (梅津諭) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 49.55, set at Kanazawa Challenge Spring PM 2023, puts him in the top 24.2% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 250th in Japan. Across 30 competitions since September 2016, he has put 353 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 94% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 41.90 in September 2016 to 15.06, a 64% improvement. Satoru has entered 30 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 24.2% of 83,917 all-time
49.55
signature single · Kanazawa Challenge Spring PM 2023
353
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 94% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
4×449.5558.92
top 24.2%250 / 667
3×315.0617.22
top 24.6%1,014 / 3,329
5×51:37.961:50.09
top 33.8%193 / 420
Megaminx2:03.912:34.04
top 48.0%228 / 313
7×75:11.485:46.12
top 54.3%114 / 188
2×26.638.09
top 57.2%691 / 1,021
6×63:45.854:28.16
top 60.7%141 / 209
3×3 one-handed39.4543.86
top 64.6%433 / 529
Pyraminx11.7418.45
top 65.6%532 / 688
3×3 blindfolded4:25.12—
early days — 1 solve248 / 282
3×3 Fewest Moves48 moves49.67
top 74.2%168 / 201

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

Tachikawa Open 2016: 41.90Japan Open 2016: 39.81Tohoku Open 2017: 29.58Meguro 2017: 25.47Kansai Summer 2017: 18.83Tokyo Pyraminx Open 2017: 24.43Yokohama 2017: 24.30Japan Open 2017: 18.73YRCC Open 2018: 19.79Tribox Open Spring 2018: 21.66Omiya Bigs 2018: 21.85Kansai Summer 2018: 17.82Tohoku 2018: 16.63Tokyo Pyraminx Returns 2018: 19.09Saitama 2018: 18.87Ayase 2019: 18.25Tribox Open Spring 2019: 18.81Reiwa Anniversary 2019: 17.13Tokai Open 2019: 16.31Tohoku 2019: 15.81Japan Championship 2019: 17.25Ayase 2020: 15.06Welcome Back Ayase Winter 2020: 16.48Tokyo Challenge Winter A 2023: 18.11Kanazawa Challenge Spring PM 2023: 16.42Ayase Summer 2023: 16.2815.0641.904 Sep 201617 Jul 2023

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-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 9.55 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 0.06 away.

Targets move as he improves.