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Ryota Takahashi (高橋瞭太)
Pyraminx · top 5.6% of 130,891 all-time · competing since May 2025 · 2025TAKA05
Ryota Takahashi (高橋瞭太) has been competing for a year. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 3.52, set at Kanto Spring 2026, puts him in the top 5.6% of the 130,891 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 72nd in Japan. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since May 2025, he has put 123 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 47.80 in May 2025 to 14.12, a 70% improvement. Ryota has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Japan | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyraminx | 3.52 | 6.62 | top 5.6% | 72 / 691 | |
| Clock | 6.71 | 7.57 | top 9.8% | 41 / 268 | |
| 3×3 | 14.12 | 21.99 | top 21.5% | 919 / 3,360 | |
| Skewb | 7.18 | 9.60 | top 35.2% | 185 / 354 | |
| Megaminx | 1:41.06 | 1:57.06 | top 35.3% | 182 / 313 | |
| 2×2 | 4.72 | 6.20 | top 35.8% | 442 / 1,026 | |
| 4×4 | 1:21.18 | 1:24.48 | top 57.0% | 511 / 679 |
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
- 5 Apr 2026First sub-15 3×3: 14.12 at Tokyo Spring 2026.
- 5 Apr 2026Three personal bests in one day at Tokyo Spring 2026.
- 21 Feb 2026First sub-20 3×3: 17.70 at Kanto Winter 2026.
- 30 Aug 2025First sub-30 3×3: 29.21 at Kanto Summer AM 2025.
- 31 May 2025First competition: Kanto Spring 2025. A 47.80 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Tokai Autumn 2026 · 11 Oct 2026
- Tokyo Summer 2026 · 13 Jun 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Kanto Spring 2026 · 17 May 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Tokyo Spring 2026 · 5 Apr 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- Kanto Winter 2026 · 21 Feb 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Ota Winter 2026 · 25 Jan 2026
- Tokyo Winter 2025 · 7 Dec 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Tokyo Autumn 2025 · 23 Sep 2025
- Kanto Summer AM 2025 · 30 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- 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.
- Shoji Ueda (植田昌司) — met in 25 rounds, finished ahead 17 times
- Takumi Kato (加藤匠) — met in 25 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
- Yuichi Hamada (濵田祐一) — met in 22 rounds, finished ahead 15 times
Next targets
- A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,783 people have one; it is 0.52 away.
- A sub-6 Clock single — 2,366 people have one; it is 0.71 away.
Targets move as he improves.