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Seita Katayama (片山誓汰)

3×3 · top 10.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2018 · 2018KATA02

Seita Katayama (片山誓汰) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.93, set at Hawaii 2019, puts him in the top 10.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 444th in Japan. Across 7 competitions since April 2018, he has put 181 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.96 in April 2018 to 10.93, a 50% improvement. Seita has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 10.3% of 284,439 all-time
10.93
signature single · Hawaii 2019
181
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×310.9312.11
top 10.3%444 / 3,329
4×444.4256.90
top 17.6%178 / 667
2×23.605.36
top 21.4%265 / 1,021
Skewb6.7112.18
top 31.3%160 / 338
3×3 one-handed24.7628.52
top 33.6%272 / 529
Pyraminx7.9212.69
top 35.5%358 / 688
Megaminx2:20.87
early days — 1 solve252 / 313
Square-138.581:01.61
top 63.6%197 / 245
5×52:27.73
early days — 2 solves328 / 420
3×3 Fewest Moves46 moves
early days — 2 solves162 / 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

Berkeley Spring 2018: 21.96Kansai Summer 2018: 15.79Hawaii 2018: 12.12Japan Championship 2018: 13.38Nishinomiya Open 2019: 11.25Kurukuru Summer 2019: 11.51Hawaii 2019: 10.9310.9321.967 Apr 201816 Nov 2019

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.93 away.
  • A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 4.42 away.

Targets move as he improves.