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Kenta Kabasawa (椛沢憲太)

Pyraminx · top 5.9% of 129,321 all-time · competing since November 2014 · 2014KABA01

Kenta Kabasawa (椛沢憲太) has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 3.60, set at Tohoku Open 2017, puts him in the top 5.9% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 76th in Japan. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 30 competitions since November 2014, he has put 440 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 63% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.75 in November 2014 to 10.91, a 42% improvement. Kenta has entered 30 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 5.9% of 129,321 all-time
3.60
signature single · Tohoku Open 2017
440
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
Pyraminx3.605.39
top 5.9%76 / 688
3×310.9112.99
top 10.2%442 / 3,329
4×440.9250.64
top 13.2%137 / 667
Megaminx1:05.811:17.92
top 13.2%94 / 313
2×23.117.12
top 15.5%202 / 1,021
5×51:51.372:05.68
top 43.5%239 / 420
Skewb8.9711.00
top 48.2%214 / 338

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

UT Open 2014: 18.75Japan Open 2015: 18.83UT Open 2015: 15.58Kanto Spring 2016: 16.03Kawasaki Spring 2016: 14.68Japan Open 2016: 15.12Tribox Open Winter 2017: 16.05Circles Open Spring 2017: 14.41Tohoku Open 2017: 15.36Yokohama 2017: 13.57Japan Open 2017: 13.49TMU Open 2018: 13.70Kansai Summer 2018: 14.12Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2018: 10.91Hiroshima 2018: 13.08Tribox Open Spring 2019: 14.02Tokai Open 2019: 13.58WCA World Championship 2019: 13.17Nishinomiya Open 2019: 12.32Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2019: 11.80Kansai Summer 2019: 13.61Hiroshima Open 2019: 12.07Hiroshima Spring 2023: 18.04Ayase Summer 2023: 12.63Hiroshima Winter 2024: 15.21Katano Milky Way 2024: 13.77Kansai Odd and BLD 2025: 11.31Katano Summer 2025: 14.04Shimonoseki 2025: 14.68Hiroshima Spring 2026: 13.9810.9118.8323 Nov 201430 May 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-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.60 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.91 away.

Targets move as he improves.