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Ryosuke Higo (肥後亮佑)

3×3 one-handed · top 1.9% of 73,695 all-time · competing since March 2006 · 2006HIGO01

Ryosuke Higo (肥後亮佑) has been competing for 20 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 11.06, set at Japan Contest Spring 2015, puts him in the top 1.9% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 18th in Japan. Until July 2011, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 34 competitions since March 2006, he has put 894 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 70% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.23 in March 2006 to 8.04, a 65% improvement. Ryosuke has entered 34 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 1.9% of 73,695 all-time
11.06
signature single · Japan Contest Spring 2015
894
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 70% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×3 one-handed11.0614.16
top 1.9%18 / 529
3×38.049.21
top 2.9%122 / 3,329
4×433.0940.90
top 5.0%60 / 667
5×51:06.221:24.26
top 9.1%57 / 420
2×22.914.44
top 13.2%180 / 1,021
Pyraminx6.117.50
top 20.8%225 / 688
3×3 Fewest Moves34 moves37.67
top 26.7%86 / 201
6×62:33.312:39.76
top 27.3%75 / 209
Megaminx1:29.711:36.60
top 28.0%154 / 313
7×74:03.524:09.88
top 32.1%71 / 188
3×3 blindfolded3:43.53—
early days — 2 solves223 / 282

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

Osaka Rubik's Cube contest 2006: 23.23Tokyo Open 2006: 18.68Osaka Rubik's Cube contest 2007: 12.00Japan Open 2007: 12.47Osaka Open 2008: 10.96Tachikawa 3x3 Fest 2013: 10.15UT Open 2013: 8.27Japan Contest Spring 2014: 10.02Japan Contest Autumn 2014: 9.15Asian Championship 2014: 9.44UT Open 2014: 9.25Tachikawa 3x3 Fest 2014: 8.78Kyushu Open 2014: 8.97Kansai Open 2015: 10.08Japan Contest Spring 2015: 8.55Kawasaki Summer 2015: 9.78East Japan Big Cubes 2015: 9.71Japan Open 2015: 9.02UT Open 2015: 8.18Japan Open 2016: 10.12Tribox Open Winter 2017: 9.61Circles Open Spring 2017: 9.68Yokohama 2017: 8.52Suginami Open 2017: 8.34Japan Open 2017: 9.09TMU Open 2018: 8.19WCA Asian Championship 2018: 8.93Japan Championship 2018: 8.64WCA World Championship 2019: 8.04Japan Championship 2019: 9.49Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 8.288.0423.235 Mar 200612 Aug 2023

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-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 1.06 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.04 away.

Targets move as he improves.