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Haruka Kitamura (北村晴香)

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 1.5% of 12,294 all-time · competing since December 2017 · 2017KITA03

Haruka Kitamura (北村晴香) has been competing for 9 years. Her best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 21 moves, set at Please Be Quiet Taiwan 2025, puts her in the top 1.5% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 13th in Japan. Across 48 competitions since December 2017, she has put 610 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 80% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 27.81 in December 2017 to 10.43, a 62% improvement. Haruka has entered 48 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 1.5% of 12,294 all-time
21 moves
signature single · Please Be Quiet Taiwan 2025
610
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 80% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×3 Fewest Moves21 moves25.00
top 1.5%13 / 201
3×3 blindfolded30.1238.38
top 4.1%20 / 282
3×3 Multi-Blind20 of 21 cubes · 53:32—
top 5.1%8 / 128
3×3 one-handed14.6421.13
top 7.4%74 / 529
4×4 blindfolded2:55.865:51.59
top 7.8%5 / 81
3×310.4313.15
top 8.7%376 / 3,329
2×22.495.15
top 8.8%124 / 1,021
5×5 blindfolded6:58.10—
top 10.4%6 / 50
Megaminx1:04.971:09.88
top 12.7%90 / 313
Skewb5.086.98
top 18.8%97 / 338
4×445.5148.63
top 18.9%189 / 667
Pyraminx6.438.01
top 23.3%250 / 688
Clock10.6712.38
top 28.4%107 / 263
5×51:31.501:40.70
top 28.5%170 / 420
6×62:49.432:55.09
top 35.8%90 / 209
7×74:17.884:25.35
top 36.9%81 / 188
Square-124.4031.60
top 37.8%126 / 245

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 2017: 27.81Tribox Open Spring 2018: 19.52Omiya Bigs 2018: 20.66Saitama 2018: 12.88Japan Championship 2018: 15.04Ayase 2019: 12.15Shonan PM 2024: 13.46Tokyo Spring AM 2025: 12.84Kansai Odd and BLD 2025: 12.26Tokyo Summer 2025: 13.13Tokai Summer 2025: 11.84Kanto Autumn PM 2025: 13.44Kansai Mega Day 2025: 10.43Tokyo Winter 2025: 11.78Taiwan Championship 2025: 12.35Ota Winter 2026: 12.10Otsu Biwako Winter 2026: 14.78Kanto Winter 2026: 12.78Kanto Spring 2026: 12.05Hiroshima Spring 2026: 11.86Kanto Summer 2026: 11.2510.4327.8116 Dec 201729 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-30 3×3 blindfolded single — 501 people have one; it is 0.12 away.

Targets move as she improves.