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Takashige Karino (狩野貴滋)

3×3 · top 2.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2017 · 2017KARI02

Takashige Karino (狩野貴滋) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.81, set at Japan Championship 2018, puts him in the top 2.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 101st in Japan. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since March 2017, he has put 181 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 94% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.46 in March 2017 to 7.81, a 37% improvement. Takashige has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.5% of 284,439 all-time
7.81
signature single · Japan Championship 2018
181
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 94% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×37.8111.05
top 2.5%101 / 3,329
5×51:03.861:10.79
top 7.7%52 / 420
4×441.0644.32
top 13.3%139 / 667
7×73:19.453:27.53
top 16.1%42 / 188
2×23.396.31
top 18.9%238 / 1,021
Megaminx1:16.871:30.62
top 19.8%128 / 313
6×62:19.842:30.50
top 20.4%59 / 209
Skewb7.4814.45
top 37.3%183 / 338
Pyraminx10.8512.39
top 59.4%504 / 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

Circles Open Spring 2017: 12.46Tokyo Pyraminx Open 2017: 10.72TMU Open 2018: 10.67Tribox Open Spring 2018: 11.19Japan Championship 2018: 7.81Ayase Autumn 2019: 9.35Japan Championship 2019: 9.307.8112.464 Mar 20172 Nov 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 1.81 away.
  • A sub-1:00 5×5 single — 2,252 people have one; it is 3.86 away.

Targets move as he improves.