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Shuntarou Taguchi (田口俊太朗)

3×3 · top 19.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2013 · 2013TAGU01

Shuntarou Taguchi (田口俊太朗) has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.47, set at Japan Open 2015, puts him in the top 19.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 806th in Japan. Across 6 competitions since March 2013, he has put 99 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 38.27 in March 2013 to 13.47, a 65% improvement. Shuntarou has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 19.1% of 284,439 all-time
13.47
signature single · Japan Open 2015
99
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×313.4715.79
top 19.1%806 / 3,329
4×452.3159.73
top 27.5%276 / 667
2×24.845.71
top 37.3%459 / 1,021
5×51:47.282:00.22
top 40.7%223 / 420
3×3 one-handed29.2132.70
top 44.8%345 / 529
Skewb13.7715.52
top 73.9%307 / 338
3×3 Fewest Moves55 moves
early days — 1 solve192 / 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

Rabbit And Turtle 2013: 38.27Tachikawa 3x3 Fest 2013: 21.05Tachikawa 3x3 Fest 2014: 15.28Japan Contest Spring 2015: 14.88Japan Open 2015: 13.4713.4738.279 Mar 201321 Sep 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.47 away.
  • A sub-50 4×4 single — 20,746 people have one; it is 2.31 away.

Targets move as he improves.