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Kanata Yamada (山田奏汰)
3×3 · top 1.6% of 288,433 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024YAMA04
Kanata Yamada (山田奏汰) has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.23, set at Shonan AM 2024, puts him in the top 1.6% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 73rd in Japan. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since March 2024, he has put 113 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 82% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.49 in March 2024 to 7.23, a 24% improvement. Kanata has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% 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 | 7.23 | 9.51 | top 1.6% | 73 / 3,360 | |
| 2×2 | 2.38 | 4.00 | top 7.8% | 103 / 1,026 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 21.80 | 26.81 | top 25.5% | 209 / 539 | |
| 4×4 | 52.26 | 58.98 | top 27.6% | 283 / 679 | |
| Clock | 11.83 | 23.35 | top 34.1% | 121 / 268 |
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
- 31 Mar 2024First competition: Tokai Challenge Beta 2024. A 9.49 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Tokyo Spring 2026 · 5 Apr 2026
- Tokyo Autumn 2025 · 23 Sep 2025
- Kanto Summer AM 2025 · 30 Aug 2025
- Kanto Spring 2025 · 31 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Tokyo Spring PM 2025 · 20 Apr 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Tokyo Open PM Winter 2025 · 16 Feb 2025
- Shonan AM 2024 · 7 Dec 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Tokai Open AM 2024 · 15 Sep 2024
- Katano Milky Way 2024 · 7 Jul 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Kanazawa 2024 · 25 May 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Tokai Challenge Beta 2024 · 31 Mar 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.
- Kantaro Sakamoto (坂本貫太郎) — met in 21 rounds, finished ahead once
- Takumi Kato (加藤匠) — met in 18 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Hajime Miyazaki (宮崎朔) — met in 16 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.23 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.38 away.
Targets move as he improves.