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Kento Nakai (中井健斗)

3×3 · top 1.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2016 · 2016NAKA02

Kento Nakai (中井健斗) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.30, set at Japan Open 2017, puts him in the top 1.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 74th in Japan. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since April 2016, he has put 241 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.77 in April 2016 to 7.30, a 43% improvement. Kento has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.7% of 284,439 all-time
7.30
signature single · Japan Open 2017
241
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×37.3010.69
top 1.7%74 / 3,329
4×435.5940.90
top 7.3%78 / 667
3×3 one-handed18.1322.98
top 15.4%132 / 529
2×23.124.50
top 15.6%207 / 1,021
Skewb4.897.73
top 17.3%87 / 338
5×51:19.021:23.07
top 18.3%111 / 420
Megaminx1:15.111:25.58
top 18.8%123 / 313
6×62:57.383:00.49
top 39.8%101 / 209
7×74:58.995:24.56
top 50.3%102 / 188
Pyraminx10.2511.41
top 55.0%474 / 688
3×3 blindfolded3:45.63
early days — 1 solve224 / 282
Square-140.3146.84
top 65.8%206 / 245

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

Exeter Open 2016: 12.77August Bank Holiday Competition 2016: 11.80Meguro 2017: 10.31Tokyo Pyraminx Open 2017: 10.09Yokohama 2017: 7.67Japan Open 2017: 7.30Japan Championship 2018: 9.04Japan Championship 2019: 9.997.3012.772 Apr 20162 Nov 2019

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.30 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 5.59 away.

Targets move as he improves.