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Go Nakamura (中村豪)

3×3 · top 0.96% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2025 · 2025NAKA01

Go Nakamura (中村豪) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.63, set at Tokyo Winter 2025, puts him in the top 0.96% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 42nd in Japan. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since February 2025, he has put 365 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 88% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 7.76 in February 2025 to 6.63, a 15% improvement. Go has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.96% of 284,439 all-time
6.63
signature single · Tokyo Winter 2025
365
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 88% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×36.638.07
top 0.96%42 / 3,329
2×21.352.89
top 1.5%16 / 1,021
Pyraminx2.253.75
top 1.6%22 / 688
Megaminx43.5145.99
top 2.6%22 / 313
3×3 one-handed12.2216.99
top 3.3%39 / 529
4×431.2934.76
top 3.7%47 / 667
5×51:05.911:13.03
top 9.0%56 / 420
Square-113.1516.62
top 12.2%47 / 245
Skewb4.565.45
top 14.9%75 / 338
Clock10.4712.30
top 27.4%100 / 263

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

Tokyo Open AM Winter 2025: 7.76Tokai Spring 2025: 8.53Tokyo Spring PM 2025: 9.73Kanto Spring 2025: 9.63Tokyo Summer 2025: 7.60Kanto Summer PM 2025: 9.19Kanto Autumn PM 2025: 8.98Kansai Mega Day 2025: 7.51Ota Autumn 2025: 8.01Tokyo Winter 2025: 6.63Ota Winter 2026: 9.05Kanto Winter 2026: 8.29Katano Spring 2026: 7.24Tokyo Spring 2026: 8.22Kanto Spring 2026: 7.60Japan Championship 2026: 8.01Kanto Summer 2026: 7.336.639.7316 Feb 202529 Aug 2026

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 0.63 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.35 away.

Targets move as he improves.