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Toshiya Sato (佐藤稔也)

3×3 · top 1.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2023 · 2023SATO03

Toshiya Sato (佐藤稔也) has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.47, set at Katano Summer 2025, puts him in the top 1.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 83rd in Japan. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since April 2023, he has put 181 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.89 in April 2023 to 7.47, a 24% improvement. Toshiya has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.9% of 284,439 all-time
7.47
signature single · Katano Summer 2025
181
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×37.478.50
top 1.9%83 / 3,329
3×3 blindfolded3:47.02
early days — 1 solve226 / 282

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

Tokyo Challenge V 2023: 9.89Tokai Open 2023: 8.71Hiroshima Winter 2024: 7.90Tokai Open AM 2024: 8.99Shonan PM 2024: 8.13Kanto Spring 2025: 9.07Kansai Odd and BLD 2025: 8.78Tokyo Summer 2025: 8.56Tokai Summer 2025: 8.82Kanto Summer AM 2025: 9.51Katano Summer 2025: 7.47Kanto Autumn AM 2025: 7.91Kansai Mega Day 2025: 8.70Ota Autumn 2025: 8.35Tokyo Winter 2025: 8.87Shimonoseki 2025: 7.49Ota Winter 2026: 8.72Otsu Biwako Winter 2026: 8.41Katano Spring 2026: 8.23Tokyo Spring 2026: 7.97Otsu Biwako Spring 2026: 7.88Hiroshima Spring 2026: 9.38Japan Championship 2026: 9.527.479.899 Apr 202318 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.47 away.
  • A sub-3:00 3×3 blindfolded single — 6,381 people have one; it is 47.02 away.

Targets move as he improves.