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Taiga Takaoka (高岡汰虎)

Pyraminx · top 0.35% of 129,321 all-time · competing since August 2015 · 2015TAKA06

Taiga Takaoka (高岡汰虎) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.44, set at Japan Championship 2018, puts him in the top 0.35% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5th in Japan. Until March 2013, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 66 competitions since August 2015, he has put 1,671 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.00 in August 2015 to 6.69, a 67% improvement. Taiga has entered 66 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.35% of 129,321 all-time
1.44
signature single · Japan Championship 2018
1,671
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 57% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
Pyraminx1.443.06
top 0.35%5 / 688
3×36.698.45
top 1.0%44 / 3,329
2×21.422.72
top 1.8%20 / 1,021
Megaminx43.4653.40
top 2.6%21 / 313
Skewb2.544.28
top 3.1%11 / 338
3×3 one-handed12.7316.67
top 4.0%47 / 529
5×557.381:06.60
top 4.3%32 / 420
4×432.6034.88
top 4.7%55 / 667
3×3 blindfolded47.451:07.47
top 9.1%46 / 282
3×3 Fewest Moves28 moves35.67
top 9.9%47 / 201
6×62:09.212:19.66
top 14.9%47 / 209
Square-116.5019.50
top 19.8%76 / 245
Clock9.5414.25
top 22.8%81 / 263
7×73:46.133:51.16
top 25.7%60 / 188
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 7:52—
early days — 1 solve90 / 128
4×4 blindfolded15:11.00—
early days — 1 solve60 / 81

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

East Japan Big Cubes 2015: 20.00Japan Open 2015: 15.77UT Open 2015: 14.55Meguro 3x3 Fest 2015: 15.97JRCA Kansai Winter 2016: 12.38Kansai Open 2016: 12.11Kanto Spring 2016: 12.77Kawasaki Spring 2016: 12.61Kanto Summer 2016: 9.38Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2016: 9.16Tachikawa Open 2016: 11.04Japan Open 2016: 10.09Kansai Small Cubes 2016: 10.21Tribox Open Winter 2017: 9.25Circles Open Spring 2017: 8.93Kansai Open 2017: 9.76Tohoku Open 2017: 8.99Meguro 2017: 8.87Kansai Summer 2017: 8.87Tokyo Pyraminx Open 2017: 9.51Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2017: 8.39Kansai Fall 2017: 9.14Suginami Open 2017: 8.64Japan Open 2017: 8.54Kyushu Open 2017: 8.97TMU Open 2018: 8.11YRCC Open 2018: 8.18Kansai Open 2018: 9.28Tribox Open Spring 2018: 9.44Kansai Summer 2018: 7.90Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2018: 8.27WCA Asian Championship 2018: 8.53Tokyo Pyraminx Returns 2018: 8.00Hiroshima 2018: 8.66Saitama 2018: 8.60Hawaii 2018: 8.60Japan Championship 2018: 8.43Ayase 2019: 7.38Kansai Open 2019: 7.07Tribox Open Spring 2019: 8.56Reiwa Anniversary 2019: 8.04Tokai Open 2019: 8.23WCA World Championship 2019: 7.77Kurukuru Summer 2019: 8.31Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2019: 8.14Kansai Summer 2019: 7.60Ayase Autumn 2019: 6.69Tokai Winter PM 2021: 6.87Minatomirai 2022: 7.84Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2022: 7.62Ayase Autumn B 2022: 7.94Taiwan Championship 2022: 7.12Singapore Championship 2023: 8.11Hiroshima Spring 2023: 7.48Kanazawa Challenge Spring AM 2023: 8.46Ayase Summer 2023: 9.19Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 8.35Tokai Open 2023: 8.41Otsu Biwako Autumn 2023: 6.72Katano Milky Way 2024: 7.32Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2024: 8.18Shonan AM 2024: 8.656.6920.008 Aug 20157 Dec 2024

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-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.44 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.69 away.

Targets move as he improves.