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Kazumasa Tsutsui (筒井一雅)

Clock · top 5.9% of 32,048 all-time · competing since April 2025 · 2025TSUT01

Kazumasa Tsutsui (筒井一雅) has been competing for a year. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 5.58, set at Japan Championship 2026, puts him in the top 5.9% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 21st in Japan. Until December 2011, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since April 2025, he has put 160 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 72% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.60 in April 2025 to 14.55, a 29% improvement. Kazumasa has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 5.9% of 32,048 all-time
5.58
signature single · Japan Championship 2026
160
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 72% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
Clock5.586.86
top 5.9%21 / 263
Pyraminx4.657.05
top 11.1%135 / 688
3×314.5518.97
top 22.9%953 / 3,329
Skewb7.239.22
top 35.5%175 / 338
3×3 one-handed30.0239.93
top 46.7%353 / 529
Megaminx2:06.262:21.59
top 49.3%234 / 313

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

Tokai Spring 2025: 20.60Kanto Spring 2025: 18.30Kansai Odd and BLD 2025: 21.87Tokyo Summer 2025: 14.55Katano Summer 2025: 16.76Kansai Mega Day 2025: 18.97Ota Autumn 2025: 19.36Ota Winter 2026: 19.02Otsu Biwako Winter 2026: 18.49Katano Spring 2026: 17.49Otsu Biwako Spring 2026: 17.6414.5521.8712 Apr 202511 Apr 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-5 Clock single — 1,421 people have one; it is 0.58 away.
  • A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.65 away.

Targets move as he improves.