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Asato Irifune (入船朝斗)

3×3 · top 0.58% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2011 · 2011IRIF01

Asato Irifune (入船朝斗) has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.15, set at Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2019, puts him in the top 0.58% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 26th in Japan. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 43 competitions since December 2011, he has put 1,461 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.72 in December 2011 to 6.15, a 58% improvement. Asato has entered 43 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.58% of 284,439 all-time
6.15
signature single · Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2019
1,461
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 56% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×36.157.86
top 0.58%26 / 3,329
3×3 one-handed10.5713.36
top 1.5%14 / 529
4×428.1131.69
top 1.8%20 / 667
2×21.793.14
top 3.5%48 / 1,021
Skewb2.685.36
top 3.5%14 / 338
5×558.571:04.22
top 4.8%37 / 420
Pyraminx3.614.93
top 5.9%77 / 688
3×3 Fewest Moves28 moves31.33
top 9.9%47 / 201
Megaminx1:05.871:12.37
top 13.2%95 / 313
6×62:05.242:15.71
top 13.3%42 / 209
7×73:20.293:29.86
top 16.4%44 / 188
3×3 blindfolded1:56.162:34.48
top 32.3%138 / 282

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

Hokuriku Eve 2011: 14.72Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2013: 10.38Kanto Summer 2016: 9.58Tachikawa Open 2016: 8.45Japan Open 2016: 8.61Tribox Open Winter 2017: 8.48Circles Open Spring 2017: 8.46Kansai Open 2017: 7.50Tohoku Open 2017: 7.68Meguro 2017: 8.69JRCA Kansai Spring 2017: 7.41World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 7.32Tokyo Pyraminx Open 2017: 7.44Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2017: 7.99Yokohama 2017: 8.34Suginami Open 2017: 8.18Japan Open 2017: 7.63TMU Open 2018: 7.22YRCC Open 2018: 8.19Kansai Open 2018: 8.23Tribox Open Spring 2018: 7.80Omiya Bigs 2018: 7.78Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2018: 7.95WCA Asian Championship 2018: 8.83Philippine Championship 2018: 7.56Hiroshima 2018: 6.98Kansai Big Cube 2018: 7.17Saitama 2018: 7.70Japan Championship 2018: 7.46Ayase 2019: 7.40Kansai Open 2019: 6.26Tribox Open Spring 2019: 7.76Reiwa Anniversary 2019: 8.02Tokai Open 2019: 7.49WCA World Championship 2019: 7.57Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2019: 6.15Kansai Summer 2019: 7.03Ayase Autumn 2019: 7.27Japan Championship 2019: 7.42Ota Summer 2022: 7.94Taiwan Championship 2022: 7.77Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 8.136.1514.7224 Dec 201112 Aug 2023

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.15 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 0.57 away.

Targets move as he improves.