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Seiya Tsuji (辻聖也)

3×3 · top 8.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2017 · 2017TSUJ02

Seiya Tsuji (辻聖也) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.33, set at Kansai Summer 2019, puts him in the top 8.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 364th in Japan. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since September 2017, he has put 327 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 61% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.74 in September 2017 to 10.33, a 42% improvement. Seiya has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.4% of 284,439 all-time
10.33
signature single · Kansai Summer 2019
327
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 61% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×310.3311.61
top 8.4%364 / 3,329
4×440.0743.73
top 12.2%123 / 667
5×51:17.461:22.90
top 17.1%106 / 420
2×24.124.76
top 28.0%348 / 1,021
Megaminx1:34.331:36.68
top 30.9%167 / 313
Pyraminx7.828.69
top 34.7%350 / 688
Square-128.4330.61
top 46.5%146 / 245
3×3 one-handed31.4138.88
top 49.9%374 / 529
6×63:28.48
top 54.1%132 / 209
Skewb9.9515.02
top 54.6%243 / 338
3×3 blindfolded3:20.29
early days — 3 solves215 / 282
Clock18.9024.70
top 61.5%211 / 263
3×3 Multi-Blind4 of 6 cubes · 41:28
early days — 1 solve104 / 128

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 Fall 2017: 17.74Kansai Big Cube 2017: 14.40Kobe Open 2018: 12.97Kansai Open 2018: 12.91Kyoto Open 2018: 12.83Kansai Summer 2018: 12.21Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2018: 11.78Hiroshima 2018: 10.45Kansai Big Cube 2018: 13.07Japan Championship 2018: 11.33JRCA Kansai Winter 2019: 11.09Kansai Open 2019: 11.55Tokai Open 2019: 12.08Nishinomiya Open 2019: 14.05Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2019: 12.29Kansai Summer 2019: 10.33Kyoto Open 2019: 11.0910.3317.7424 Sep 201720 Oct 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 0.33 away.
  • A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 0.07 away.

Targets move as he improves.