People · Japan
Taku Sasaki (佐々木拓)
3×3 · top 7.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2017 · 2017SASA01
Taku Sasaki (佐々木拓) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.94, set at Omiya Bigs 2018, puts him in the top 7.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 320th in Japan. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since January 2017, he has put 108 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 79% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.79 in January 2017 to 9.94, a 28% improvement. Taku has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Japan | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 9.94 | 12.36 | top 7.3% | 320 / 3,329 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 18.22 | 24.53 | top 15.7% | 137 / 529 | |
| 4×4 | 45.76 | 49.75 | top 19.2% | 191 / 667 | |
| 5×5 | 2:20.45 | 2:34.09 | top 61.2% | 316 / 420 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 10 Jun 2018First sub-10 3×3: 9.94 at Omiya Bigs 2018.
- 14 Jan 2017First competition: Tribox Open Winter 2017. A 13.79 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Tokai Open 2019 · 22 Jun 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Kansai Open 2019 · 20 Apr 2019
- Omiya Bigs 2018 · 10 Jun 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- Japan Open 2017 · 16 Dec 2017
- Yokohama 2017 · 17 Sep 2017
- Tokyo Pyraminx Open 2017 · 29 Jul 2017 — 2 personal bests set
- Meguro 2017 · 5 May 2017 — 1 personal best set
- Tribox Open Winter 2017 · 14 Jan 2017
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.
- Asato Irifune (入船朝斗) — met in 22 rounds, never finished ahead
- Shuto Ueno (上野柊斗) — met in 20 rounds, never finished ahead
- Arifumi Fushimi (伏見有史) — met in 18 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.94 away.
- A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 5,987 people have one; it is 3.22 away.
Targets move as he improves.