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Masaru Isono (五十野優)

3×3 · top 35.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2024 · 2024ISON03

Masaru Isono (五十野優) has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 18.59, set at Katano Summer 2025, puts him in the top 35.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,381st in Japan. Across 5 competitions since July 2024, he has put 24 official solves on the record across one event. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 18% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 30.24 in July 2024 to 18.59, a 39% improvement. Masaru has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 35.9% of 284,439 all-time
18.59
signature single · Katano Summer 2025
24
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×318.5922.55
top 35.9%1,381 / 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

Katano Milky Way 2024: 30.24Tokai Open PM 2024: 27.43Tokai Spring 2025: 18.78Kansai Odd and BLD 2025: 22.61Katano Summer 2025: 18.5918.5930.247 Jul 202415 Sep 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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 3.59 away.

Targets move as he improves.