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Taro Yoshioka (吉岡太郎)

3×3 · top 0.86% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2012 · 2012YOSH02

Taro Yoshioka (吉岡太郎) has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.51, set at Ayase Autumn 2019, puts him in the top 0.86% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 36th in Japan. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 57 competitions since May 2012, he has put 861 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 78% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 2:09.88 in October 2012 to 6.51, a 95% improvement. Taro has entered 57 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.86% of 284,439 all-time
6.51
signature single · Ayase Autumn 2019
861
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 78% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×36.518.55
top 0.86%36 / 3,329
2×21.312.50
top 1.4%11 / 1,021
4×431.4037.36
top 3.7%49 / 667
Pyraminx3.575.03
top 5.8%74 / 688
3×3 one-handed20.3823.13
top 21.5%179 / 529
5×51:34.721:46.95
top 31.3%184 / 420
6×63:16.953:29.75
early days — 3 solves122 / 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

East Osaka 2012: 2:09.88West Japan Big Cube 2012: 1:23.05Kansai Open 2013: 56.52Cherry Blossom Viewing Open 2013: 56.27Lake-Biwa Open 2013: 55.40Kansai Star Festival 2013: 35.31East Osaka 2013: 38.47West Japan Big Cube 2013: 31.08JRCA Kansai Winter 2014: 26.15Kansai Open 2014: 32.27JRCA Kansai Spring 2014: 25.69JRCA Kansai Summer 2014: 24.78West Japan Big Cube 2014: 27.75JRCA Kansai Fall 2014: 17.46JRCA Kansai Winter 2015: 23.93Kansai Open 2015: 19.55JRCA Kansai Spring 2015: 21.66JRCA Kansai Summer 2015: 16.61Japan Open 2015: 17.61Kansai Open 2016: 13.06JRCA Kansai Spring 2016: 14.63JRCA Kansai Summer 2016: 13.06JRCA Kansai Fall 2016: 11.72Japan Open 2016: 10.57Kansai Small Cubes 2016: 11.52Kansai Open 2017: 11.12Kansai Summer 2017: 11.49Tokyo Pyraminx Open 2017: 13.76Yokohama 2017: 10.44Suginami Open 2017: 8.85Japan Open 2017: 9.31TMU Open 2018: 9.75YRCC Open 2018: 9.94Kansai Open 2018: 8.09Tribox Open Spring 2018: 9.58Omiya Bigs 2018: 9.56Kansai Summer 2018: 7.79WCA Asian Championship 2018: 9.30Tokyo Pyraminx Returns 2018: 8.18Saitama 2018: 9.68Japan Championship 2018: 7.60JRCA Kansai Winter 2019: 8.27Ayase 2019: 7.76Tribox Open Spring 2019: 8.65Reiwa Anniversary 2019: 8.63Tokai Open 2019: 7.42Nishinomiya Open 2019: 10.65Kurukuru Summer 2019: 8.66Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2019: 7.86Kansai Summer 2019: 7.69Ayase Autumn 2019: 6.51Japan Championship 2019: 7.99Hiroshima Open 2019: 7.99Ayase 2020: 7.25Kanazawa Open 2020: 7.856.512:09.8827 Oct 201223 Feb 2020

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 0.51 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.31 away.

Targets move as he improves.