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Kohei Abe (阿部航平)

3×3 · top 6.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2017 · 2017ABEK01

Kohei Abe (阿部航平) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.50, set at Shonan PM 2024, puts him in the top 6.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 257th in Japan. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 28 competitions since May 2017, he has put 244 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 88% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.36 in May 2017 to 9.50, a 51% improvement. Kohei has entered 28 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.1% of 284,439 all-time
9.50
signature single · Shonan PM 2024
244
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 88% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×39.5010.79
top 6.1%257 / 3,329
3×3 blindfolded1:00.51—
top 13.2%66 / 282
3×3 Multi-Blind11 of 13 cubes · 58:13—
top 21.3%32 / 128
4×457.811:03.51
top 34.1%336 / 667
Square-127.7040.81
top 45.0%143 / 245
3×3 one-handed30.2735.97
top 47.2%356 / 529
Megaminx2:09.962:17.69
top 51.2%237 / 313
3×3 Fewest Moves44 moves—
early days — 1 solve147 / 201
5×5 blindfolded24:14.00—
early days — 1 solve33 / 50
7×76:50.067:29.12
early days — 3 solves155 / 188

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

JRCA Kansai Spring 2017: 19.36Kobe Open 2018: 14.13Kansai Open 2018: 13.83Kyoto Open 2018: 12.74Kansai Summer 2018: 11.66WCA Asian Championship 2018: 15.18Kansai Big Cube 2018: 13.32Saitama 2018: 13.33Japan Championship 2018: 12.52Kansai Open 2019: 10.69Reiwa Anniversary 2019: 13.36Kyoto Open 2019: 10.96Tokai Winter PM 2021: 10.28Minatomirai 2022: 10.66Yoga Summer A 2022: 11.69Katano Milky Way 2024: 10.85Shonan PM 2024: 9.50Tokai Spring 2025: 11.75Tokyo Spring AM 2025: 10.04Kansai Odd and BLD 2025: 9.579.5019.3628 May 201715 Jun 2025

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.50 away.
  • A sub-1:00 3×3 blindfolded single — 1,593 people have one; it is 0.51 away.

Targets move as he improves.