People · Japan
Kakeru Fukuda (福田翔)
7×7 · top 7.5% of 14,226 all-time · competing since October 2016 · 2016FUKU01
Kakeru Fukuda (福田翔) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 7×7: a personal-best single of 2:48.62, set at Ota Blind Summer 2023, puts him in the top 7.5% of the 14,226 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 18th in Japan. Until September 2012, no official 7×7 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since October 2016, he has put 270 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.54 in October 2016 to 10.75, a 39% improvement. Kakeru has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Japan | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7×7 | 2:48.62 | 2:54.62 | top 7.5% | 18 / 188 | |
| 3×3 | 10.75 | 13.48 | top 9.7% | 429 / 3,329 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.66 | 5.79 | top 11.2% | 140 / 688 | |
| 5×5 | 1:09.46 | 1:12.51 | top 11.2% | 68 / 420 | |
| 4×4 | 41.05 | 42.20 | top 13.3% | 138 / 667 | |
| 3×3 Fewest Moves | 32 moves | — | early days — 1 solve | 74 / 201 | |
| Skewb | 5.33 | 9.15 | top 20.7% | 107 / 338 | |
| Megaminx | 1:20.41 | 1:26.42 | top 22.1% | 135 / 313 | |
| 6×6 | 2:24.72 | 2:30.02 | top 22.9% | 67 / 209 | |
| 2×2 | 3.93 | 6.33 | top 25.6% | 320 / 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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 22 Dec 2018Three personal bests in one day at Japan Championship 2018.
- 15 Sep 2018Three personal bests in one day at Tohoku 2018.
- 3 Feb 2018First sub-15 3×3: 12.62 at TMU Open 2018.
- 16 Dec 2017Four personal bests in one day at Japan Open 2017.
- 8 Apr 2017Three personal bests in one day at Tohoku Open 2017.
- 9 Oct 2016First competition: Japan Open 2016. A 17.54 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Ota Blind Summer 2023 · 8 Jul 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Japan Championship 2019 · 2 Nov 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Tohoku 2019 · 22 Sep 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Japan Championship 2018 · 22 Dec 2018 — 3 personal bests set
- Tohoku 2018 · 15 Sep 2018 — 3 personal bests set
- Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2018 · 10 Aug 2018 — 1 personal best set
- Omiya Bigs 2018 · 10 Jun 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- TMU Open 2018 · 3 Feb 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- Japan Open 2017 · 16 Dec 2017 — 4 personal bests set
- Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2017 · 11 Aug 2017 — 2 personal bests set
- Tohoku Open 2017 · 8 Apr 2017 — 3 personal bests set
- Japan Open 2016 · 9 Oct 2016
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.
- Takuma Daino (台野拓磨) — met in 41 rounds, finished ahead 38 times
- Tomohiro Kobayashi (小林知広) — met in 40 rounds, never finished ahead
- Shunsuke Wada (和田俊輔) — met in 38 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
Next targets
- A sub-2:00 7×7 single — 83 people have one; it is 48.62 away.
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.75 away.
Targets move as he improves.