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Junnosuke Takahashi (髙橋淳之介)

3×3 · top 0.14% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2022 · 2022TAKA04

Junnosuke Takahashi (髙橋淳之介) has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.11, set at Kanto Spring 2025, puts him in the top 0.14% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5th in Japan. Until November 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since July 2022, he has put 278 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 80% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 8.34 in July 2022 to 5.11, a 39% improvement. Junnosuke has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.14% of 284,439 all-time
5.11
signature single · Kanto Spring 2025
278
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 80% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×35.116.72
top 0.14%5 / 3,329
2×21.201.99
top 1.0%8 / 1,021

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

Ota Summer 2022: 8.34Yoga Summer B 2022: 8.90Ayase Autumn B 2022: 8.35Tokyo Challenge Winter A 2023: 8.44Hiroshima Spring 2023: 7.07Tokyo Challenge IV 2023: 7.58Ayase Summer 2023: 8.11Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 7.50Tokyo Challenge VII 2023: 6.64Hiroshima Winter 2024: 6.48Katano Milky Way 2024: 6.20Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2024: 5.84Tokyo Open AM Winter 2025: 6.18Tokyo Spring PM 2025: 5.96Kanto Spring 2025: 5.11Tokyo Summer 2025: 6.16Kanto Summer PM 2025: 6.80Tokyo Winter 2025: 6.88Ota Winter 2026: 5.84Tokyo Spring 2026: 5.80Japan Championship 2026: 6.19Kansai Mega Day 2026: 5.45Kewbz UK Championship 2026: 6.055.118.9030 Jul 202228 Aug 2026

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

  • 30 Jul 2022First competition: Ota Summer 2022. A 8.34 3×3 single to start from.

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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.11 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.20 away.

Targets move as he improves.