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Yuki Tanaka (田中悠樹)

Pyraminx · top 2.3% of 129,321 all-time · competing since July 2010 · 2010TANA02

Yuki Tanaka (田中悠樹) has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 2.53, set at Tachikawa Open 2016, puts him in the top 2.3% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 35th in Japan. Until January 2011, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 57 competitions since July 2010, he has put 573 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 58% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 33.71 in July 2010 to 11.75, a 65% improvement. Yuki has entered 57 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 2.3% of 129,321 all-time
2.53
signature single · Tachikawa Open 2016
573
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 58% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
Pyraminx2.534.77
top 2.3%35 / 688
3×3 Fewest Moves25 moves30.33
top 5.1%30 / 201
3×311.7515.67
top 13.0%553 / 3,329
Clock10.5312.01
top 27.6%103 / 263
2×24.346.91
top 30.9%391 / 1,021
4×41:09.561:17.07
top 46.4%432 / 667
Megaminx2:04.682:24.81
top 48.3%230 / 313
3×3 one-handed34.1639.73
top 55.7%393 / 529
5×53:10.683:35.08
top 81.4%373 / 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

30th Anniversary MegaHouse Cup 2010: 33.71UT Open 2010: 24.05Osaka 2011: 23.16Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2011: 19.02UT Open 2011: 20.84Kansai Open 2012: 20.27Rabbit and Turtle 2012: 18.05Kawasaki Open 2012: 21.43Kanto Open 2012: 18.31Japan Contest 2012: 16.53UT Open 2012: 11.75Kanto Winter 2012: 14.90Rabbit And Turtle 2013: 17.80Kansai Open 2013: 16.52Kawasaki Open 2013: 17.18World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 17.79Tachikawa 3x3 Fest 2013: 14.31Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2013: 18.63Kawasaki Autumn 2013: 16.38UT Open 2013: 15.80Kawasaki Spring 2014: 14.19Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2014: 15.22West Japan Big Cube 2014: 14.13Japan Contest Autumn 2014: 16.36Asian Championship 2014: 16.94Kansai Open 2015: 14.81Kawasaki Summer 2015: 14.66East Japan Big Cubes 2015: 16.65Japan Open 2015: 14.43UT Open 2015: 14.27Meguro 3x3 Fest 2015: 14.18Kawasaki Spring 2016: 16.77Kanto Summer 2016: 16.33Tachikawa Open 2016: 14.82Japan Open 2016: 16.53Circles Open Spring 2017: 17.08Kansai Open 2017: 15.05Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2017: 14.57Japan Open 2017: 15.28Tribox Open Spring 2018: 15.11Tohoku 2018: 16.72Japan Championship 2018: 13.0311.7533.7124 Jul 201022 Dec 2018

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-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.53 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.75 away.

Targets move as he improves.