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Syoji Takamatsu (高松唱司)

3×3 · top 28.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2005 · 2005TAKA02

Syoji Takamatsu (高松唱司) has been competing for 21 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 16.29, set at Japanese Championship 2006, puts him in the top 28.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,147th in Japan. Across 10 competitions since July 2005, he has put 130 official solves on the record across eight 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 19.05 in July 2005 to 16.29, a 14% improvement. Syoji has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 28.7% of 284,439 all-time
16.29
signature single · Japanese Championship 2006
130
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×316.2920.52
top 28.7%1,147 / 3,329
Pyraminx8.0910.30
top 36.9%370 / 688
4×41:31.101:41.27
top 64.4%544 / 667
Square-140.2746.45
top 65.7%205 / 245
2×28.1813.38
top 68.9%779 / 1,021
5×53:12.773:46.21
top 82.0%376 / 420
Megaminx3:37.904:16.81
early days — 3 solves296 / 313
3×3 one-handed1:08.35
early days — 2 solves505 / 529

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

Kyoto Rubik's Cube contest 2005: 19.05Japanese Championship 2005: 18.91Osaka Rubik's Cube contest 2006: 18.84Tokyo Open 2006: 16.72Japanese Championship 2006: 16.29Ibaraki competition 2007: 19.09Osaka Open 2008: 24.31Tokyo Open 2008: 19.1616.2924.3110 Jul 20052 Aug 2008

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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 1.29 away.
  • A sub-8 Pyraminx single — 46,752 people have one; it is 0.09 away.

Targets move as he improves.