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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.

3×3
best event — top 2.3% of 284,439 all-time
7.69
signature single · Hiroshima Spring 2026
77
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 76% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×37.698.94
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

Shimonoseki 2025: 9.43Ota Winter 2026: 8.78Kanto Spring 2026: 8.03Hiroshima Spring 2026: 7.69Japan Championship 2026: 9.06Kansai Mega Day 2026: 8.04Shimonoseki Summer 2026: 7.88Korea Open 2026: 8.30Kanto Summer 2026: 8.297.699.4328 Dec 202529 Aug 2026

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

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 1.69 away.

Targets move as he improves.