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Ryunosuke Sato (佐藤琉之介)

Clock · top 1.8% of 32,048 all-time · competing since September 2023 · 2023SATO05

Ryunosuke Sato (佐藤琉之介) has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 3.72, set at Tokai Challenge Gamma 2024, puts him in the top 1.8% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5th in Japan. Until July 2018, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 3 competitions since September 2023, he has put 37 official solves on the record across three events. His Clock best has come down from 5.17 in September 2023 to 3.72, a 28% improvement. Ryunosuke has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 1.8% of 32,048 all-time
3.72
signature single · Tokai Challenge Gamma 2024
37
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
Clock3.724.52
top 1.8%5 / 263
3×310.0212.56
top 7.5%329 / 3,329
Skewb4.885.68
top 17.2%86 / 338

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

Tokai Open 2023: 5.17Tokai Challenge Gamma 2024: 3.72Tokai Spring 2025: 3.823.725.179 Sep 202312 Apr 2025

Best single per competition, Clock. 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-3 Clock single — 239 people have one; it is 0.72 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.02 away.

Targets move as he improves.