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Takuma Takeuchi (竹内琢磨)

3×3 · top 88.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2010 · 2010TAKE03

Takuma Takeuchi (竹内琢磨) has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 53.64, set at Kanto Summer 2016, puts him in the top 88.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,889th in Japan. Across 5 competitions since July 2010, he has put 30 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. Takuma has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 88.4% of 284,439 all-time
53.64
signature single · Kanto Summer 2016
30
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×353.6457.30
top 88.4%2,889 / 3,329
2×215.4824.40
top 91.2%972 / 1,021

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

30th Anniversary MegaHouse Cup 2010: 55.55Japan Open 2011: 1:03.93Asian Championship 2014: 1:04.40Kawasaki Spring 2016: 1:00.13Kanto Summer 2016: 53.6453.641:04.4024 Jul 201024 Jul 2016

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-50 3×3 single — 244,718 people have one; it is 3.64 away.
  • A sub-15 2×2 single — 169,048 people have one; it is 0.48 away.

Targets move as he improves.