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Taki Sugimoto (杉本太暉)

Clock · top 10.6% of 32,048 all-time · competing since March 2008 · 2008SUGI01

Taki Sugimoto (杉本太暉) has been competing for 18 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 6.90, set at Japan Open 2010, puts him in the top 10.6% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 43rd in Japan. Across 10 competitions since March 2008, he has put 91 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 28.34 in March 2008 to 13.03, a 54% improvement. Taki has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 10.6% of 32,048 all-time
6.90
signature single · Japan Open 2010
91
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
Clock6.908.00
top 10.6%43 / 263
3×313.0318.58
top 17.5%741 / 3,329
Pyraminx12.2819.05
top 68.9%549 / 688
2×210.7712.83
top 80.8%879 / 1,021
3×3 one-handed57.021:01.25
top 82.1%483 / 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

Osaka Open 2008: 28.34Osaka Open 2009: 22.68Japan Open 2009: 23.55Japan Open 2010: 21.97Kawasaki Open 2010: 17.47Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2010: 20.52Osaka 2011: 18.36Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2011: 13.03Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2012: 18.8013.0328.3429 Mar 200817 Aug 2012

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 Clock single — 2,324 people have one; it is 0.90 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.03 away.

Targets move as he improves.