People · Japan
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.
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% | 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
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
- Tokyo Autumn 2026 · 17 Oct 2026
- 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 13 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
- Takumi Kawazoe (川添匠) — met in 12 rounds, finished ahead once
- Masayuki Hirai (平井雅之) — met in 11 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.69 away.
Targets move as he improves.