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Takeshi Ito (伊藤健)

3×3 · top 6.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2014 · 2014ITOT01

Takeshi Ito (伊藤健) has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.74, set at Tribox Open Spring 2019, puts him in the top 6.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 294th in Japan. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 30 competitions since August 2014, he has put 495 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 70% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.09 in August 2014 to 9.74, a 39% improvement. Takeshi has entered 30 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.7% of 284,439 all-time
9.74
signature single · Tribox Open Spring 2019
495
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 70% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×39.7412.39
top 6.7%294 / 3,329
4×439.2543.19
top 11.2%113 / 667
2×23.155.60
top 16.0%209 / 1,021
Skewb5.758.56
top 23.8%123 / 338
3×3 Fewest Moves34 moves49.67
top 26.7%86 / 201
Clock12.0216.21
top 35.0%123 / 263
5×51:43.442:06.87
top 37.9%203 / 420
Square-134.70—
early days — 2 solves175 / 245

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

Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2014: 16.09Asian Championship 2014: 16.52Tokai Open 2014: 13.41Kansai Open 2015: 14.86Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2015: 14.09Tohoku Open 2015: 13.59Japan Open 2015: 13.97Kyushu Open 2015: 13.08Kansai Open 2016: 12.55Cherry Blossom Viewing 2016: 14.09Kawasaki Spring 2016: 12.69JRCA Kansai Spring 2016: 10.68Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2016: 10.77Tachikawa Open 2016: 12.46Asian Championship 2016: 11.79Japan Open 2016: 11.74Kyushu Open 2016: 11.15Tribox Open Winter 2017: 11.38Kansai Open 2017: 11.95Japan Open 2017: 12.79Tribox Open Spring 2018: 11.60Kyoto Open 2018: 11.23Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2018: 11.13Japan Championship 2018: 11.33Tribox Open Spring 2019: 9.74Tokai Open 2019: 12.08WCA World Championship 2019: 11.15Tokai Winter PM 2021: 12.72Go x Go Kyoto 2023: 12.98Tokai Open 2023: 11.319.7416.528 Aug 20149 Sep 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.74 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 9.25 away.

Targets move as he improves.