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Taisho Hayashi (林大翔)

3×3 · top 2.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2016 · 2016HAYA02

Taisho Hayashi (林大翔) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.85, set at Kobe Open 2018, puts him in the top 2.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 106th in Japan. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since March 2016, he has put 258 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 91% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.94 in March 2016 to 7.85, a 39% improvement. Taisho has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.5% of 284,439 all-time
7.85
signature single · Kobe Open 2018
258
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 91% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×37.859.38
top 2.5%106 / 3,329
3×3 one-handed13.4915.77
top 5.2%55 / 529
2×22.603.60
top 9.9%136 / 1,021
Skewb5.146.71
top 19.3%99 / 338
4×446.3247.85
top 20.0%203 / 667
Pyraminx6.529.53
top 24.0%256 / 688

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

Kansai Open 2016: 12.94JRCA Kansai Spring 2016: 11.75JRCA Kansai Summer 2016: 10.90Kansai Small Cubes 2016: 9.75Kansai Open 2017: 9.57JRCA Kansai Spring 2017: 9.72Kansai Summer 2017: 9.15Kansai Fall 2017: 10.74Kobe Open 2018: 7.85Kyoto Open 2018: 8.42Kansai Summer 2018: 7.94Kansai Open 2019: 8.237.8512.9419 Mar 201620 Apr 2019

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.85 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 1.49 away.

Targets move as he improves.