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Toru Umetsu (梅津融)

3×3 · top 60.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2017 · 2017UMET01

Toru Umetsu (梅津融) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 28.66, set at Saitama 2018, puts him in the top 60.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,093rd in Japan. Across 14 competitions since May 2017, he has put 123 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 40.71 in May 2017 to 28.66, a 30% improvement. Toru has entered 14 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 60.1% of 284,439 all-time
28.66
signature single · Saitama 2018
123
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×328.6633.88
top 60.1%2,093 / 3,329
2×28.4911.86
top 70.8%802 / 1,021
Pyraminx16.8429.62
top 87.3%642 / 688
Clock43.73
early days — 1 solve259 / 263
3×3 one-handed1:49.02
top 97.3%524 / 529

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

Meguro 2017: 40.71Tokyo Pyraminx Open 2017: 51.56Yokohama 2017: 44.31Japan Open 2017: 30.22YRCC Open 2018: 36.27Tribox Open Spring 2018: 30.62Omiya Bigs 2018: 31.80Kansai Summer 2018: 40.02Tokyo Pyraminx Returns 2018: 38.64Saitama 2018: 28.66Ayase 2019: 31.88Tribox Open Spring 2019: 32.67Reiwa Anniversary 2019: 32.99Tohoku 2019: 34.4128.6651.565 May 201722 Sep 2019

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

  • 11 Nov 2018First sub-30 3×3: 28.66 at Saitama 2018.
  • 5 May 2017First competition: Meguro 2017. A 40.71 3×3 single to start from.

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-25 3×3 single — 149,621 people have one; it is 3.66 away.
  • A sub-8 2×2 single — 126,624 people have one; it is 0.49 away.

Targets move as he improves.