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Issey Wakunaga

3×3 · top 3.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2025 · 2025WAKU01

Issey Wakunaga has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.12, set at UCSB Favorites 2025, puts him in the top 3.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,706th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since January 2025, he has put 588 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 69% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.01 in January 2025 to 8.12, a 49% improvement. Issey has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.0% of 284,439 all-time
8.12
signature single · UCSB Favorites 2025
588
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 69% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.129.93
top 3.0%1,706 / 59,724
4×436.4239.46
top 8.1%1,220 / 19,072
2×22.974.35
top 13.9%5,459 / 40,951
Megaminx1:13.781:31.26
top 17.9%1,214 / 7,841
Skewb5.037.64
top 18.4%2,924 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed19.6922.83
top 19.7%2,527 / 15,683
5×51:23.521:27.08
top 22.0%1,701 / 9,401
Clock10.1213.53
top 25.7%1,969 / 8,927
6×62:39.962:54.06
top 30.7%1,081 / 4,196
Pyraminx8.5511.11
top 41.0%11,735 / 28,708
Square-130.7849.78
top 50.8%3,329 / 6,743
7×75:27.606:02.11
top 59.0%1,759 / 3,184

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

Santa Barbara Winter 2025: 16.01Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2025: 12.20Agoura Side Events Day 2025: 12.97UCLA Spring 2025: 12.25Let's Cube Long Beach 2025: 11.58Westview Cubing Favorites 2025: 12.49UCLA Summer 2025: 13.10UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025: 10.75West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2025: 10.25Nub Open Trabuco Hills Fall 2025: 10.74Mission Viejo Fall 2025: 9.59UCSB Favorites 2025: 8.12Huntington Park Winter 2025: 8.91Temecula Valley Winter 2025: 10.16Super Duper San Diego 2026: 10.66Agoura Winter 2026: 9.74UCLA Spring 2026: 9.47Temecula Valley Spring 2026: 9.57Poly Cubed at Pomona 2026: 8.49Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2026: 9.26West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2026: 8.14Temecula Valley Back To School 2026: 10.178.1216.014 Jan 202522 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.12 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 6.42 away.

Targets move as he improves.