People · Japan
Masaya Nakamoto (中本誠也)
3×3 · top 0.31% of 288,433 all-time · competing since April 2019 · 2019NAKA07
Masaya Nakamoto (中本誠也) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.64, set at Otsu Biwako Winter 2026, puts him in the top 0.31% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 6th in Japan. Until March 2013, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 25 competitions since April 2019, he has put 382 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 93% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.22 in April 2019 to 5.64, a 54% improvement. Masaya has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% 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 | 5.64 | 7.34 | top 0.31% | 6 / 3,360 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 8.96 | 10.66 | top 0.5% | 6 / 539 | |
| 2×2 | 2.42 | 2.99 | top 8.2% | 112 / 1,026 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.43 | 7.16 | top 16.0% | 186 / 691 | |
| 3×3 Fewest Moves | 32 moves | — | early days — 3 solves | 76 / 205 | |
| 4×4 | 55.52 | 1:00.20 | top 31.5% | 322 / 679 | |
| Skewb | 7.79 | 11.09 | top 39.8% | 208 / 354 | |
| 5×5 | 1:48.39 | 1:59.39 | top 41.6% | 234 / 426 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 3:47.97 | — | early days — 2 solves | 229 / 285 | |
| Square-1 | 1:11.04 | — | early days — 1 solve | 241 / 251 |
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
- 2 Nov 2019First sub-10 3×3: 9.41 at Japan Championship 2019.
- 28 Apr 2019First competition: Tribox Open Spring 2019. A 12.22 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Tokyo Autumn 2026 · 17 Oct 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Kanto Summer 2026 · 29 Aug 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Japan Championship 2026 · 18 Jul 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Hiroshima Spring 2026 · 30 May 2026
- Tokyo BLD Spring 2026 · 29 Mar 2026
- Katano Spring 2026 · 21 Mar 2026
- Kanto Winter 2026 · 21 Feb 2026
- Otsu Biwako Winter 2026 · 1 Feb 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Ota Winter 2026 · 25 Jan 2026
- Kanto Autumn AM 2025 · 11 Oct 2025
- Kanto Summer AM 2025 · 30 Aug 2025
- Tokai Summer 2025 · 27 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Tokyo Summer 2025 · 21 Jul 2025
- Kanto Spring 2025 · 31 May 2025
- Shonan PM 2024 · 7 Dec 2024
- Tokai Open AM 2024 · 15 Sep 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Ayase FMC 2023 · 26 Nov 2023
- Otsu Biwako Autumn 2023 · 23 Sep 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Ayase Autumn B 2022 · 6 Nov 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Yoga Summer A 2022 · 21 Aug 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Ota Blind Summer 2022 · 30 Jul 2022
- Japan Championship 2019 · 2 Nov 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Ayase Autumn 2019 · 21 Sep 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Kurukuru Summer 2019 · 27 Jul 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Tribox Open Spring 2019 · 28 Apr 2019
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 66 rounds, finished ahead 29 times
- Kantaro Sakamoto (坂本貫太郎) — met in 50 rounds, finished ahead 14 times
- Hajime Miyazaki (宮崎朔) — met in 46 rounds, finished ahead 27 times
Next targets
- A sub-5 3×3 single — 355 people have one; it is 0.64 away.
- A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 155 people have one; it is 0.96 away.
Targets move as he improves.