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Kosuke Takahashi (高橋康介)

3×3 · top 2.3% of 288,433 all-time · competing since December 2025 · 2025TAKA16

Kosuke Takahashi (高橋康介) has been competing for 10 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 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 93rd in Japan. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since December 2025, he has put 82 official solves on the record across one event. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 72% of the 36,406 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 ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.3% of 288,433 all-time
7.69
signature single · Hiroshima Spring 2026
82
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 72% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×37.698.94
top 2.3%93 / 3,360

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: 8.29Tokyo Autumn 2026: 9.877.699.8728 Dec 202517 Oct 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

Targets move as he improves.