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Yoshiki Yumoto (湯本美貴)

3×3 · top 13.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2006 · 2006YUMO01

Yoshiki Yumoto (湯本美貴) has been competing for 20 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.83, set at UT Open 2015, puts him in the top 13.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 566th in Japan. Across 9 competitions since July 2006, he has put 145 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 70% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:00.26 in July 2006 to 11.83, an 80% improvement. Yoshiki has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 13.3% of 284,439 all-time
11.83
signature single · UT Open 2015
145
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 70% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×311.8314.16
top 13.3%566 / 3,329
4×452.4158.69
top 27.7%277 / 667
2×24.508.04
top 32.9%414 / 1,021
Pyraminx11.8716.06
top 66.4%535 / 688
5×52:35.59
top 68.4%343 / 420
3×3 one-handed1:09.16
early days — 3 solves509 / 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

Tokyo Open 2006: 1:00.26Japanese Championship 2006: 28.63Machida Open 2007: 21.84Osaka Rubik's Cube contest 2007: 16.56Japan Open 2007: 20.18World Rubik's Cube Championship 2007: 14.28Tokyo Open 2008: 15.65Japan Open 2015: 12.77UT Open 2015: 11.8311.831:00.2630 Jul 200623 Nov 2015

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 1.83 away.
  • A sub-50 4×4 single — 20,746 people have one; it is 2.41 away.

Targets move as he improves.