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Yuta Sasaki (佐々木雄太)

3×3 · top 20.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2009 · 2009SASA01

Yuta Sasaki (佐々木雄太) has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.84, set at UT Open 2011, puts him in the top 20.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 859th in Japan. Across 4 competitions since August 2009, he has put 45 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.30 in August 2009 to 13.84, a 15% improvement. Yuta has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 20.4% of 284,439 all-time
13.84
signature single · UT Open 2011
45
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×313.8415.97
top 20.4%859 / 3,329
3×3 one-handed23.0531.76
top 28.9%232 / 529
2×24.637.03
top 34.6%435 / 1,021

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

Japan Open 2009: 16.30JRCA Kanto Winter 2010: 15.11UT Open 2011: 13.84Rabbit And Turtle 2013: 15.2513.8416.301 Aug 20099 Mar 2013

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.84 away.
  • A sub-20 3×3 one-handed single — 15,081 people have one; it is 3.05 away.

Targets move as he improves.