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Toru Morooka (諸岡徹)

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 4.0% of 12,294 all-time · competing since August 2010 · 2010MORO01

Toru Morooka (諸岡徹) has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 24 moves, set at Japan Open 2016, puts him in the top 4.0% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 25th in Japan. Across 64 competitions since August 2010, he has put 953 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 75% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.47 in August 2010 to 9.08, a 56% improvement. Toru has entered 64 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 4.0% of 12,294 all-time
24 moves
signature single · Japan Open 2016
953
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 75% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×3 Fewest Moves24 moves32.33
top 4.0%25 / 201
4×431.8436.66
top 4.1%53 / 667
3×39.089.98
top 5.1%209 / 3,329
5×51:00.541:11.08
top 5.8%46 / 420
2×23.675.11
top 22.3%280 / 1,021
6×62:34.222:40.28
top 27.8%78 / 209
3×3 one-handed23.9134.65
top 31.2%255 / 529
Skewb7.7512.38
top 39.4%194 / 338
Megaminx3:17.59—
early days — 2 solves283 / 313

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 2010: 20.47Matsudo Open 2010: 15.86Hokuriku Eve 2011: 12.52Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2012: 14.81East Osaka 2012: 13.34Kansai Open 2013: 13.44Kansai Star Festival 2013: 13.75UT Open 2013: 11.47JRCA Kansai Winter 2014: 12.15Kanto Open 2014: 12.38Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2014: 10.61Tokai Open 2014: 12.09Kyushu Open 2014: 9.90Tokyo Pyraminx Open 2015: 12.46JRCA Kansai Summer 2015: 10.63East Japan Big Cubes 2015: 10.58Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2015: 11.55Japan Open 2015: 10.53Kyushu Open 2015: 10.05Kawasaki Spring 2016: 14.21Kanto Summer 2016: 11.99Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2016: 9.75Tachikawa Open 2016: 11.58Tribox Open Winter 2017: 12.49Circles Open Spring 2017: 10.12Tohoku Open 2017: 9.73Meguro 2017: 10.01Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2017: 11.84Japan Open 2017: 11.97TMU Open 2018: 10.96YRCC Open 2018: 10.03Kansai Open 2018: 10.90Tribox Open Spring 2018: 12.26Omiya Bigs 2018: 11.75Hiroshima 2018: 11.71Japan Championship 2018: 10.05Ayase 2019: 10.57Tribox Open Spring 2019: 11.33Reiwa Anniversary 2019: 11.53Tokai Open 2019: 10.14Ayase Autumn 2019: 10.41Japan Championship 2019: 10.44Hiroshima Open 2019: 10.77Ayase 2020: 10.30Minatomirai 2022: 11.12Yoga Summer B 2022: 10.13Hiroshima Spring 2023: 9.15Kanazawa Challenge Spring PM 2023: 9.08Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 9.80Tokai Open 2023: 9.21Japan Championship 2026: 9.699.0820.4721 Aug 201018 Jul 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-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 1.84 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.08 away.

Targets move as he improves.