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Takuya Furukawa (古河拓也)

3×3 · top 5.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2008 · 2008FURU01

Takuya Furukawa (古河拓也) has been competing for 18 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.28, set at JRCA Kansai Spring 2016, puts him in the top 5.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 231st in Japan. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 37 competitions since March 2008, he has put 706 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 90% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.50 in March 2008 to 9.28, a 55% improvement. Takuya has entered 37 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.5% of 284,439 all-time
9.28
signature single · JRCA Kansai Spring 2016
706
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 90% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×39.2812.20
top 5.5%231 / 3,329
2×22.834.49
top 12.3%166 / 1,021
4×451.1657.02
top 26.1%264 / 667
Pyraminx7.438.21
top 31.4%315 / 688
Clock12.0913.44
top 35.4%128 / 263
3×3 Fewest Moves39 moves—
top 44.7%118 / 201
3×3 one-handed31.0939.74
top 49.1%369 / 529
5×52:03.902:23.35
top 51.7%268 / 420
3×3 blindfolded3:10.22—
top 55.3%210 / 282
Square-139.7248.58
top 65.0%202 / 245

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 Open 2008: 20.50Japan Open 2010: 17.58JRCA Kansai Spring 2010: 14.9430th Anniversary MegaHouse Cup 2010: 13.69Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2010: 13.78JRCA Kansai Summer 2010: 14.25UT Open 2010: 11.44Osaka 2011: 12.44West Japan Big Cubes 2011: 12.08Japan Open 2011: 11.31Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2011: 11.06World Rubik's Cube Championship 2011: 11.19Kyotanabe Open 2011: 10.94Hokuriku Eve 2011: 9.80Kansai New Year 2012: 10.81Kansai Open 2012: 9.68Kyotanabe Open 2012: 10.93Kawasaki Open 2012: 10.90Kansai Star Festival 2012: 11.86Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2012: 12.28Hiroshima Open 2012: 10.93Japan Open 2012: 12.58East Osaka 2012: 10.40Kansai Open 2013: 11.31Lake-Biwa Open 2013: 11.36Kansai Star Festival 2013: 10.90West Japan Big Cube 2014: 11.43Asian Championship 2014: 11.94JRCA Kansai Fall 2014: 10.03Kansai Open 2015: 11.96JRCA Kansai Spring 2015: 11.68JRCA Kansai Summer 2015: 11.94Japan Open 2015: 12.56Kyushu Open 2015: 12.30JRCA Kansai Winter 2016: 12.71Kansai Open 2016: 10.18JRCA Kansai Spring 2016: 9.289.2820.5029 Mar 200829 May 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.28 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.83 away.

Targets move as he improves.