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Shotaro Makisumi (牧角章太郎)

3×3 · top 3.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2003 · 2003MAKI01

Shotaro Makisumi (牧角章太郎) has been competing for 23 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.50, set at Benelux Open 2010, puts him in the top 3.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 153rd in Japan. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 36 competitions since August 2003, he has put 888 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 96% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.30 in August 2003 to 8.50, a 58% improvement. Shotaro has entered 36 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.7% of 284,439 all-time
8.50
signature single · Benelux Open 2010
888
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 96% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×38.5011.84
top 3.7%153 / 3,329
3×3 Fewest Moves25 moves—
top 5.1%30 / 201
3×3 one-handed14.9321.10
top 8.0%80 / 529
2×22.693.65
top 10.8%148 / 1,021
3×3 blindfolded1:39.562:35.70
top 26.4%119 / 282
5×51:36.941:43.29
top 33.0%190 / 420
4×459.961:06.30
top 36.4%358 / 667

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

World Rubik's Games Championship 2003: 20.30Caltech Winter competition 2004: 14.76Caltech Spring competition 2004: 12.11US Nationals 2004: 14.14Caltech Fall competition 2004: 12.75Caltech Winter competition 2005: 13.27Caltech Spring competition 2005: 12.54Horace Mann Spring competition 2005: 13.14Caltech Dallas Summer competition 2005: 12.26Rubik's World Championship 2005: 12.14Caltech Winter competition 2006: 13.28Caltech Spring competition 2006: 12.50Caltech Fall competition 2006: 12.04Caltech Summer competition 2007: 11.49World Rubik's Cube Championship 2007: 11.31Caltech Fall competition 2007: 11.52Newark Winter 2009: 11.52US Nationals 2009: 13.33Toulouse Open 2010: 10.27Benelux Open 2010: 8.50Danish Open 2010: 11.50Zaragoza Open 2010: 10.69German Open 2010: 11.93Berkeley Summer 2010: 9.21United States Rubik's Cube Championships 2010: 10.77Princeton Fall 2010: 10.61Liberty Science Center Open 2010: 11.18Newark Head to Head 2011: 12.55United States National Championships 2011: 10.65Princeton Fall 2011: 11.53Liberty Science Center Open 2011: 10.58MIT Fall 2011: 10.27United States National Championships 2012: 10.65Berkeley Autumn 2012: 11.84World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 10.09SPCS Stanford Spring 2015: 11.528.5020.3023 Aug 200319 Apr 2015

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.

  • Leyan Lo — met in 88 rounds, finished ahead 62 times
  • Dan Dzoan — met in 68 rounds, finished ahead 35 times
  • Rowe Hessler — met in 64 rounds, finished ahead 9 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.50 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 2.93 away.

Targets move as he improves.