Sunday 6 September 2026 Rebuilt nightly from the WCA's official results · export of 6 September 2026 · About
The Middle Three
People → Japan → Ryota Nakahara (中原良太)

People · Japan

Ryota Nakahara (中原良太)

3×3 · top 23.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2006 · 2006NAKA01

Ryota Nakahara (中原良太) has been competing for 20 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 14.65, set at Japanese Championship 2006, puts him in the top 23.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 965th in Japan. Across 3 competitions since November 2006, he has put 41 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. Ryota has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 23.2% of 284,439 all-time
14.65
signature single · Japanese Championship 2006
41
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×314.6516.74
top 23.2%965 / 3,329
4×41:29.732:01.82
top 63.4%538 / 667
5×53:27.93
early days — 1 solve386 / 420

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

Japanese Championship 2006: 14.65Machida Open 2007: 15.60Japan Open 2007: 16.4414.6516.4412 Nov 200628 Jul 2007

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 2.65 away.
  • A sub-1:00 4×4 single — 30,601 people have one; it is 29.73 away.

Targets move as he improves.