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Soichi Akamatsu (赤松聡一)

3×3 · top 0.34% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2012 · 2012AKAM01

Soichi Akamatsu (赤松聡一) has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.71, set at Kansai Summer 2018, puts him in the top 0.34% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 8th in Japan. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 25 competitions since November 2012, he has put 810 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.63 in November 2012 to 5.71, a 46% improvement. Soichi has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.34% of 284,439 all-time
5.71
signature single · Kansai Summer 2018
810
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×35.718.61
top 0.34%8 / 3,329
4×425.1428.73
top 0.73%8 / 667
5×553.8559.53
top 3.0%25 / 420
6×61:58.212:01.72
top 10.3%33 / 209
7×73:00.413:04.97
top 10.7%30 / 188
2×22.974.47
top 13.9%186 / 1,021

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

Japan Contest 2012: 10.63West Japan Big Cube 2012: 10.44Kansai Open 2013: 9.93JRCA Kansai Winter 2017: 8.19Kansai Open 2017: 8.33JRCA Kansai Spring 2017: 9.20Kansai Summer 2017: 9.34Yokohama 2017: 8.17Kansai Big Cube 2017: 8.76Japan Open 2017: 8.25Kobe Open 2018: 7.70Kansai Open 2018: 7.26Kyoto Open 2018: 7.41Kansai Summer 2018: 5.71Hiroshima 2018: 7.80Kansai Big Cube 2018: 7.63Japan Championship 2018: 7.96JRCA Kansai Winter 2019: 8.99Tokai Open 2019: 8.67Nishinomiya Open 2019: 8.69Kyoto Open 2019: 8.08Japan Championship 2019: 8.53Hiroshima Open 2019: 6.47Kanazawa Open 2020: 8.925.7110.634 Nov 201223 Feb 2020

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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.71 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 0.14 away.

Targets move as he improves.