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Haruto Kawabata (川端大翔)
3×3 · top 4.0% of 288,433 all-time · competing since December 2024 · 2024KAWA11
Haruto Kawabata (川端大翔) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.59, set at Tokyo Spring PM 2025, puts him in the top 4.0% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 169th in Japan. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since December 2024, he has put 105 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.70 in December 2024 to 8.59, an 11% improvement. Haruto 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 | 8.59 | 10.54 | top 4.0% | 169 / 3,360 | |
| 4×4 | 35.25 | 43.04 | top 7.0% | 80 / 679 | |
| Skewb | 3.75 | 5.29 | top 9.3% | 50 / 354 | |
| 5×5 | 1:09.32 | 1:13.56 | top 11.2% | 72 / 426 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 19.09 | 22.86 | top 18.1% | 155 / 539 | |
| 2×2 | 3.99 | 4.80 | top 26.4% | 331 / 1,026 | |
| Pyraminx | 7.05 | 8.09 | top 28.3% | 296 / 691 | |
| Square-1 | 28.21 | 34.84 | top 46.2% | 149 / 251 |
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
- 2 Oct 2026Three personal bests in one day at Sydney Cubing Decathlon 2026.
- 7 Dec 2024First competition: Shonan PM 2024. A 9.70 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Sydney Cubing Decathlon 2026 · 2 Oct 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- NxNjoyable Sydney Gathering 2026 · 28 Mar 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Kanto Spring 2025 · 31 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Tokyo Spring PM 2025 · 20 Apr 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Shonan PM 2024 · 7 Dec 2024
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.
- Nathan Liu — met in 13 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
- Hans Lin — met in 13 rounds, finished ahead once
- Sora Sato — met in 13 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.59 away.
- A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,465 people have one; it is 5.25 away.
Targets move as he improves.