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Taku Yanai (矢内拓)

Pyraminx · top 1.8% of 129,321 all-time · competing since October 2012 · 2012YANA01

Taku Yanai (矢内拓) has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 2.32, set at Japan Championship 2019, puts him in the top 1.8% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 27th in Japan. Until July 2011, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 84 competitions since October 2012, he has put 1,427 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 63% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.53 in October 2012 to 7.53, a 54% improvement. Taku has entered 84 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 1.8% of 129,321 all-time
2.32
signature single · Japan Championship 2019
1,427
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
Pyraminx2.324.56
top 1.8%27 / 688
Clock3.704.44
top 1.8%4 / 263
3×37.539.96
top 2.0%87 / 3,329
3×3 blindfolded24.3526.86
top 2.7%12 / 282
3×3 Multi-Blind23 of 23 cubes · 56:37—
top 3.3%3 / 128
Square-18.4110.80
top 3.6%9 / 245
3×3 one-handed13.8215.39
top 5.8%59 / 529
Skewb3.205.44
top 6.0%29 / 338
4×434.4839.89
top 6.2%68 / 667
Megaminx56.121:05.05
top 7.9%62 / 313
3×3 Fewest Moves28 moves30.67
top 9.9%47 / 201
5×51:08.261:17.65
top 10.4%63 / 420
2×22.833.96
top 12.3%166 / 1,021
4×4 blindfolded3:59.185:41.16
top 14.7%12 / 81
5×5 blindfolded8:43.2110:59.00
top 16.3%9 / 50
6×62:19.362:26.57
top 20.1%58 / 209
7×73:34.393:42.38
top 21.3%55 / 188

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 Osaka 2012: 16.53Kansai Open 2013: 15.91Japan Open 2013: 12.27Lake-Biwa Open 2013: 12.58Kansai Star Festival 2013: 13.27Tachikawa 3x3 Fest 2013: 12.06Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2013: 11.97East Osaka 2013: 12.94West Japan Big Cube 2013: 13.88UT Open 2013: 11.96Hokuriku Eve Open 2013: 13.15Kanto Open 2014: 12.08Kansai Open 2014: 12.65Cherry Blossom Viewing 2014: 12.71Japan Contest Spring 2014: 11.88JRCA Kansai Spring 2014: 10.61JRCA Kansai Summer 2014: 12.16West Japan Big Cube 2014: 11.63Asian Championship 2014: 10.71UT Open 2014: 9.86JRCA Kansai Winter 2015: 12.06Tokyo Pyraminx Open 2015: 10.80JRCA Kansai Spring 2015: 11.33Kawasaki Summer 2015: 11.25World Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 11.05JRCA Kansai Summer 2015: 12.65JRCA Kansai Fall 2015: 10.71JRCA Kansai Winter 2016: 11.41Kansai Open 2016: 10.78Kanto Spring 2016: 9.47Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2016: 10.21Japan Open 2017: 10.48Kyoto Open 2019: 10.33Japan Championship 2019: 9.97Ayase 2020: 10.82Welcome Back Ayase Winter 2020: 10.39Tokai Winter AM 2021: 8.70Minatomirai 2022: 10.01Ayase Autumn A 2022: 10.12Ayase Summer 2023: 9.76Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 10.11Tokai Open 2023: 9.68Otsu Biwako Autumn 2023: 9.01Taiwan Championship 2024: 7.67Tokyo Open AM Winter 2025: 8.89Tokai Spring 2025: 10.01Tokyo Spring AM 2025: 9.66Luzon Multi-Mega Madness 2025: 8.95Kansai Odd and BLD 2025: 7.99Tokyo Summer 2025: 9.98Tokai Summer 2025: 8.70Kanto Summer AM 2025: 9.15Kanto Autumn PM 2025: 9.54Tokyo Winter 2025: 7.53Ota Winter 2026: 10.19Kanto Winter 2026: 10.27Kanto Spring 2026: 11.387.5316.5327 Oct 201217 May 2026

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-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.32 away.
  • A sub-3 Clock single — 239 people have one; it is 0.70 away.

Targets move as he improves.