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Yasuhide Sakai (酒井裕偉)

Pyraminx · top 50.3% of 129,321 all-time · competing since July 2005 · 2005SAKA01

Yasuhide Sakai (酒井裕偉) has been competing for 21 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 9.66, set at Ibaraki competition 2007, puts him in the top 50.3% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 446th in Japan. Across 5 competitions since July 2005, he has put 38 official solves on the record across five events. Yasuhide has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 50.3% of 129,321 all-time
9.66
signature single · Ibaraki competition 2007
38
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
Pyraminx9.6612.14
top 50.3%446 / 688
2×210.9318.22
top 81.3%885 / 1,021
Megaminx3:52.934:08.18
early days — 3 solves303 / 313
3×31:02.401:04.58
top 92.5%3,022 / 3,329
5×55:54.5818:55.00
top 98.5%415 / 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

Ibaraki competition 2007: 9.66Amagasaki Open 2009: 12.80JRCA Kansai Summer 2009: 9.689.6612.8017 Nov 200718 Jul 2009

Best single per competition, Pyraminx. 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 Pyraminx single — 46,752 people have one; it is 1.66 away.
  • A sub-10 2×2 single — 145,545 people have one; it is 0.93 away.

Targets move as he improves.