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Tokiya Matsuda (松田時弥)

3×3 · top 4.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2024 · 2024MATS07

Tokiya Matsuda (松田時弥) has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.99, set at Kansai Mega Day 2026, puts him in the top 4.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 200th in Japan. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since July 2024, he has put 86 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 72% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 39.43 in July 2024 to 8.99, a 77% improvement. Tokiya has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.8% of 284,439 all-time
8.99
signature single · Kansai Mega Day 2026
86
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 72% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×38.9910.60
top 4.8%200 / 3,329
4×440.4846.80
top 12.7%128 / 667
3×3 one-handed19.4126.58
top 19.0%162 / 529
2×24.905.56
top 38.1%466 / 1,021
Pyraminx8.299.88
top 38.7%383 / 688
Megaminx1:54.252:08.51
top 42.7%208 / 313
Skewb10.7413.85
top 59.4%261 / 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

Katano Milky Way 2024: 39.43Kansai Odd and BLD 2025: 11.68Katano Summer 2025: 10.19Kansai Mega Day 2025: 11.01Katano Spring 2026: 9.15Kansai Mega Day 2026: 8.998.9939.437 Jul 20241 Aug 2026

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 0.99 away.
  • A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 0.48 away.

Targets move as he improves.