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Akitsugu Nakamura (中村祥嗣)
3×3 blindfolded · top 3.5% of 12,178 all-time · competing since June 2025 · 2025NAKA12
Akitsugu Nakamura (中村祥嗣) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3 blindfolded: a personal-best single of 27.28, set at Japan Championship 2026, puts him in the top 3.5% of the 12,178 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 16th in Japan. Until October 2012, no official 3×3 blindfolded solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since June 2025, he has put 59 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.79 in June 2025 to 8.68, an 11% improvement. Akitsugu has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Japan | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 blindfolded | 27.28 | 37.02 | top 3.5% | 16 / 282 | |
| 3×3 | 8.68 | 10.35 | top 4.1% | 175 / 3,329 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 15.88 | 20.17 | top 10.0% | 99 / 529 | |
| 2×2 | 2.64 | 4.08 | top 10.3% | 144 / 1,021 | |
| 4×4 | 44.48 | 53.81 | top 17.6% | 180 / 667 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 15 Jun 2025First competition: Kansai Odd and BLD 2025. A 9.79 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Japan Championship 2026 · 18 Jul 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Kansai BLD Summer 2026 · 6 Jun 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Katano Spring 2026 · 21 Mar 2026
- Katano Summer 2025 · 15 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Kansai Odd and BLD 2025 · 15 Jun 2025
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.
- Takayuki Ookusa (大艸尊之) — met in 11 rounds, finished ahead 9 times
- Takayuki Tanaka (田中隆喜) — met in 10 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
- Takeru Iguchi (井口丈瑠) — met in 10 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-25 3×3 blindfolded single — 355 people have one; it is 2.28 away.
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.68 away.
Targets move as he improves.