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Takumi Yoshida (吉田匠)

3×3 · top 2.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2007 · 2007YOSH01

Takumi Yoshida (吉田匠) has been competing for 20 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.68, set at Tachikawa 3x3 Fest 2013, puts him in the top 2.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 90th in Japan. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 37 competitions since March 2007, he has put 963 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 93% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.61 in March 2007 to 7.68, a 34% improvement. Takumi has entered 37 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.2% of 284,439 all-time
7.68
signature single · Tachikawa 3x3 Fest 2013
963
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 93% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×37.6810.02
top 2.2%90 / 3,329
3×3 one-handed12.3318.08
top 3.5%44 / 529
Pyraminx3.314.48
top 4.7%64 / 688
4×435.5842.03
top 7.3%77 / 667
Megaminx56.311:07.82
top 8.0%65 / 313
3×3 Fewest Moves28 moves34.67
top 9.9%47 / 201
5×51:12.401:21.52
top 13.4%81 / 420
Square-120.6530.16
top 29.4%102 / 245
3×3 blindfolded2:03.47—
early days — 1 solve142 / 282
7×74:20.804:27.66
top 38.0%83 / 188
6×63:05.153:09.58
early days — 3 solves111 / 209

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 Rubik's Cube contest 2007: 11.61Osaka Open 2008: 12.15Japan Open 2008: 10.96Osaka Open 2009: 11.08JRCA Kanto Summer 2009: 10.09JRCA Kansai Summer 2009: 11.25World Rubik's Cube Championship 2009: 10.91Japan Open 2010: 11.33Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2010: 10.40Matsudo Open 2010: 10.02UT Open 2010: 9.41Osaka 2011: 9.58Matsudo Spring 2011: 10.03West Japan Big Cubes 2011: 10.80Japan Open 2011: 9.88Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2011: 8.66Matsudo Autumn 2011: 10.04UT Open 2011: 9.06Tsukuba 2012: 9.80Kansai Open 2012: 11.16Matsudo Spring 2012: 10.22UT Open 2012: 8.69Japan Contest Spring 2013: 8.65Tachikawa 3x3 Fest 2013: 7.68Japan Contest Spring 2014: 9.78UT Open 2014: 9.36Tokyo Pyraminx Open 2015: 10.69Tachikawa Open 2016: 10.03Japan Open 2016: 10.02Tribox Open Winter 2017: 9.44Circles Open Spring 2017: 10.38Tohoku Open 2017: 10.77World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 9.93Japan Open 2017: 13.317.6813.3131 Mar 200716 Dec 2017

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 1.68 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 0.33 away.

Targets move as he improves.