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Yukiko Makino (牧野由希子)

3×3 · top 11.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2007 · 2007MAKI01

Yukiko Makino (牧野由希子) has been competing for 19 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.43, set at West Japan Big Cubes 2011, puts her in the top 11.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 510th in Japan. Across 11 competitions since November 2007, she has put 173 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 68% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 34.00 in November 2007 to 11.43, a 66% improvement. Yukiko has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 11.9% of 284,439 all-time
11.43
signature single · West Japan Big Cubes 2011
173
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 68% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×311.4313.85
top 11.9%510 / 3,329
5×51:28.021:38.41
top 25.7%151 / 420
2×25.096.59
top 40.5%500 / 1,021
4×41:04.771:06.07
top 41.5%393 / 667
7×74:42.184:58.94
top 45.2%99 / 188

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: 34.00Osaka Open 2008: 24.91Amagasaki Open 2009: 14.84Osaka Open 2009: 12.44JRCA Kansai Spring 2009: 14.05JRCA Kansai Summer 2009: 13.34Doshisha Open 2009: 12.83Japan Open 2010: 14.28JRCA Kansai Spring 2010: 14.09Osaka 2011: 12.71West Japan Big Cubes 2011: 11.4311.4334.0017 Nov 200721 May 2011

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.43 away.
  • A sub-1:00 5×5 single — 2,252 people have one; it is 28.02 away.

Targets move as she improves.