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Takuya Emori (榎森拓也)

3×3 · top 8.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2012 · 2012EMOR01

Takuya Emori (榎森拓也) has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.39, set at Suginami Open 2017, puts him in the top 8.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 371st in Japan. Until February 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since March 2012, he has put 153 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 18% around a typical one; 98% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.61 in March 2012 to 10.39, a 52% improvement. Takuya has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.6% of 284,439 all-time
10.39
signature single · Suginami Open 2017
153
official solves on the record
18%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 98% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×310.3916.83
top 8.6%371 / 3,329
2×24.216.56
top 29.2%365 / 1,021
4×41:08.611:19.60
top 45.5%422 / 667
Pyraminx9.1112.56
top 45.8%419 / 688
Skewb11.8014.41
top 65.0%277 / 338
3×3 one-handed47.6452.85
top 74.5%467 / 529
5×52:59.553:23.26
top 77.9%363 / 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

Kansai Open 2012: 21.61Tokai Open 2012: 16.93Rabbit and Turtle 2012: 16.06Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2012: 19.27Tokai Open 2014: 17.47JRCA Kansai Spring 2017: 15.44Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2017: 21.86Suginami Open 2017: 10.3910.3921.8624 Mar 201229 Oct 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.39 away.
  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.21 away.

Targets move as he improves.