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Takuya Aikawa (相川拓也)

3×3 · top 15.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2014 · 2014AIKA01

Takuya Aikawa (相川拓也) has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.31, set at Kyushu Open 2016, puts him in the top 15.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 627th in Japan. Across 3 competitions since March 2014, he has put 50 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.68 in March 2014 to 12.31, a 10% improvement. Takuya has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 15.0% of 284,439 all-time
12.31
signature single · Kyushu Open 2016
50
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×312.3114.57
top 15.0%627 / 3,329
2×23.375.45
top 18.6%236 / 1,021
4×41:05.111:13.91
top 41.9%394 / 667

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

Kansai Open 2014: 13.68Kyushu Open 2014: 14.93Kyushu Open 2016: 12.3112.3114.9321 Mar 201429 Dec 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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.31 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.37 away.

Targets move as he improves.