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Kohei Fujitani (藤谷航平)

3×3 one-handed · top 2.6% of 73,695 all-time · competing since April 2019 · 2019FUJI03

Kohei Fujitani (藤谷航平) has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 11.71, set at Tokai Open AM 2024, puts him in the top 2.6% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 27th in Japan. Until August 2010, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since April 2019, he has put 125 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 69% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.73 in April 2019 to 8.03, a 57% improvement. Kohei has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 2.6% of 73,695 all-time
11.71
signature single · Tokai Open AM 2024
125
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 69% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×3 one-handed11.7117.34
top 2.6%27 / 529
3×38.039.32
top 2.8%121 / 3,329
2×22.333.52
top 7.3%96 / 1,021
Pyraminx4.246.61
top 8.9%106 / 688
4×442.5446.08
top 15.1%152 / 667
Skewb7.1614.09
top 34.9%171 / 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

Kansai Open 2019: 18.73Kansai Summer 2019: 14.38Tokai Winter PM 2021: 9.89Yoga Summer B 2022: 9.12Tokai Challenge Beta 2024: 9.17Kanazawa 2024: 8.03Katano Milky Way 2024: 9.35Tokai Open AM 2024: 8.34Tokyo Open PM Winter 2025: 8.99Tokai Spring 2025: 8.168.0318.7320 Apr 201912 Apr 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-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 1.71 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.03 away.

Targets move as he improves.