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Yu Araki (荒木由布)

3×3 · top 19.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2006 · 2006ARAK02

Yu Araki (荒木由布) has been competing for 20 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.59, set at Kansai Star Festival 2012, puts her in the top 19.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 829th in Japan. Across 35 competitions since July 2006, she has put 299 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 70% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 36.90 in July 2006 to 13.59, a 63% improvement. Yu has entered 35 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 19.5% of 284,439 all-time
13.59
signature single · Kansai Star Festival 2012
299
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 70% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×313.5916.77
top 19.5%829 / 3,329
2×24.9713.27
top 39.0%480 / 1,021
Megaminx1:56.012:04.74
top 43.6%211 / 313
3×3 blindfolded4:09.31
top 70.3%237 / 282
3×3 one-handed57.881:34.81
top 82.7%486 / 529
Pyraminx27.50
early days — 3 solves679 / 688

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: 36.90Rubik's Cube OGU Open 2006: 22.64Japanese Championship 2006: 23.41Osaka Rubik's Cube contest 2007: 18.86Japan Open 2007: 18.36Kanazawa Open 2007: 16.19World Rubik's Cube Championship 2007: 19.90Ibaraki competition 2007: 16.68Osaka Open 2008: 17.88Kashiwa Open 2008: 16.47Japan Open 2008: 14.44Amagasaki Open 2009: 15.91Osaka Open 2009: 15.77JRCA Kansai Spring 2009: 14.77JRCA Kansai Summer 2009: 17.56Japan Open 2009: 14.13World Rubik's Cube Championship 2009: 14.68Doshisha Open 2009: 16.55JRCA Kanto Winter 2010: 17.16Japan Open 2010: 16.64JRCA Kansai Spring 2010: 17.25Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2010: 18.50World Rubik's Cube Championship 2011: 16.27Kyotanabe Open 2011: 16.55Kansai New Year 2012: 19.02Kansai Open 2012: 19.46Kansai Star Festival 2012: 13.59Japan Open 2013: 18.93Kansai Open 2014: 18.66Asian Championship 2014: 19.05Kansai Open 2016: 20.63Tribox Open Winter 2017: 21.96Kansai Open 2017: 23.2913.5936.9030 Jul 200619 Mar 2017

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.59 away.
  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.97 away.

Targets move as she improves.