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Kosuke Takahashi (高橋康介)
3×3 · top 2.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2025 · 2025TAKA16
Kosuke Takahashi (高橋康介) has been competing for 8 months. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.69, set at Hiroshima Spring 2026, puts him in the top 2.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 92nd in Japan. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since December 2025, he has put 77 official solves on the record across one event. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 76% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.43 in December 2025 to 7.69, an 18% improvement. Kosuke has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Japan | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 7.69 | 8.94 | top 2.3% | 92 / 3,329 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 28 Dec 2025First competition: Shimonoseki 2025. A 9.43 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Kanto Summer 2026 · 29 Aug 2026
- Korea Open 2026 · 15 Aug 2026
- Shimonoseki Summer 2026 · 9 Aug 2026
- Kansai Mega Day 2026 · 1 Aug 2026
- Japan Championship 2026 · 18 Jul 2026
- Hiroshima Spring 2026 · 30 May 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Kanto Spring 2026 · 17 May 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Ota Winter 2026 · 25 Jan 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Shimonoseki 2025 · 28 Dec 2025
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.
- Takumi Kato (加藤匠) — met in 12 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
- Takumi Kawazoe (川添匠) — met in 11 rounds, finished ahead once
- Takayuki Ookusa (大艸尊之) — met in 10 rounds, finished ahead 10 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.69 away.
Targets move as he improves.