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Naoyuki Takahashi (高橋直之)
3×3 Fewest Moves · top 12.2% of 12,294 all-time · competing since May 2025 · 2025TAKA04
Naoyuki Takahashi (高橋直之) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 29 moves, set at Tokyo FMC Spring 2026, puts him in the top 12.2% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 55th in Japan. Across 16 competitions since May 2025, he has put 124 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 19% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.79 in May 2025 to 16.32, an 18% improvement. Naoyuki has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% 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 Fewest Moves | 29 moves | 34.00 | top 12.2% | 55 / 201 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.19 | 9.96 | top 14.4% | 166 / 688 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 1:40.12 | — | top 26.6% | 121 / 282 | |
| 3×3 | 16.32 | 18.25 | top 28.8% | 1,152 / 3,329 | |
| 3×3 Multi-Blind | 6 of 6 cubes · 48:20 | — | early days — 2 solves | 57 / 128 | |
| Skewb | 9.28 | 16.76 | top 50.4% | 220 / 338 | |
| 2×2 | 6.18 | 9.12 | top 52.7% | 646 / 1,021 | |
| Megaminx | 2:19.16 | 2:29.62 | top 55.9% | 249 / 313 | |
| Clock | 19.16 | 29.09 | top 62.2% | 213 / 263 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 40.32 | 46.58 | top 65.7% | 441 / 529 | |
| 4×4 | 1:42.28 | — | early days — 2 solves | 576 / 667 | |
| Square-1 | 54.07 | 1:14.17 | top 79.6% | 225 / 245 | |
| 4×4 blindfolded | 20:18.00 | — | early days — 1 solve | 70 / 81 | |
| 6×6 | 7:10.47 | — | early days — 1 solve | 202 / 209 | |
| 7×7 | 10:31.00 | — | early days — 1 solve | 183 / 188 |
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
- 31 May 2025First competition: Kanto Spring 2025. A 19.79 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Tokyo BLD Summer 2026 · 25 Jul 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Japan FMC Championship 2026 · 4 Jul 2026
- Tokyo Summer 2026 · 13 Jun 2026
- Kanto Spring 2026 · 17 May 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Tokyo FMC Spring 2026 · 12 Apr 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Tokyo Spring 2026 · 5 Apr 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Tokyo BLD Spring 2026 · 29 Mar 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Tokyo BLD Winter 2026 · 7 Mar 2026
- Kanto Winter 2026 · 21 Feb 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Ota Winter 2026 · 25 Jan 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Tokyo FMC Winter 2026 · 17 Jan 2026
- Ota BLD Autumn 2025 · 8 Nov 2025
- Kanto Autumn AM 2025 · 11 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Kanto Summer AM 2025 · 30 Aug 2025
- Tokyo Summer 2025 · 21 Jul 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Kanto Spring 2025 · 31 May 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 32 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Yuki Yamamoto (山本祐輝) — met in 31 rounds, finished ahead once
- Kazuhiko Kusano (草野一彦) — met in 30 rounds, finished ahead 10 times
Next targets
- A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.19 away.
- A sub-1:30 3×3 blindfolded single — 2,810 people have one; it is 10.12 away.
Targets move as he improves.