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Yuhei Takagi (高木佑平)

3×3 one-handed · top 0.4% of 73,695 all-time · competing since May 2008 · 2008TAKA01

Yuhei Takagi (高木佑平) has been competing for 18 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 8.72, set at Kansai Open 2017, puts him in the top 0.4% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3rd in Japan. Until May 2015, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 164 competitions since May 2008, he has put 4,374 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 70% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.22 in May 2008 to 7.36, a 55% improvement. Yuhei has entered 164 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.4% of 73,695 all-time
8.72
signature single · Kansai Open 2017
4,374
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 70% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×3 one-handed8.7212.78
top 0.4%3 / 529
3×37.369.44
top 1.8%79 / 3,329
3×3 Fewest Moves23 moves30.00
top 3.0%21 / 201
2×21.753.91
top 3.3%45 / 1,021
Pyraminx3.005.80
top 3.6%53 / 688
4×431.4838.50
top 3.8%50 / 667
3×3 blindfolded35.4746.23
top 5.6%25 / 282
5×51:01.031:04.15
top 6.1%49 / 420
Megaminx59.101:07.17
top 9.5%70 / 313
6×62:01.422:08.79
top 11.5%38 / 209
7×73:05.073:19.01
top 12.0%32 / 188
Square-115.3721.44
top 17.3%67 / 245
4×4 blindfolded4:53.976:44.72
top 21.4%20 / 81
Skewb5.556.41
top 22.3%115 / 338
5×5 blindfolded10:41.00—
top 24.2%16 / 50
Clock10.0911.97
top 25.5%88 / 263
3×3 Multi-Blind7 of 8 cubes · 48:23—
top 32.5%58 / 128

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

Kashiwa Open 2008: 16.22Tokyo Open 2008: 16.27Japan Open 2008: 14.96Osaka Open 2009: 17.33JRCA Kanto Summer 2009: 16.94JRCA Kanto Winter 2010: 13.97Japan Open 2010: 13.31Kawasaki Open 2010: 13.6530th Anniversary MegaHouse Cup 2010: 11.44Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2010: 11.77UT Open 2010: 11.31Osaka 2011: 12.34Matsudo Spring 2011: 11.36Japan Open 2011: 11.41UT Open 2011: 11.46Tsukuba 2012: 11.36Kansai Open 2012: 9.84Matsudo Spring 2012: 10.41Rabbit and Turtle 2012: 10.61Kawasaki Open 2012: 10.38Kanto Open 2012: 10.06Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2012: 9.75Japan Open 2012: 10.55UT Open 2012: 10.58Rabbit And Turtle 2013: 10.88Kansai Open 2013: 10.72Japan Contest Spring 2013: 9.47Japan Open 2013: 10.47Lake-Biwa Open 2013: 9.91Tachikawa 3x3 Fest 2013: 9.88Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2013: 9.33Kawasaki Autumn 2013: 10.63West Japan Big Cube 2013: 9.97UT Open 2013: 8.30Kyushu Open 2013: 10.19JRCA Kansai Winter 2014: 9.83Kanto Open 2014: 9.58Kansai Open 2014: 9.52Cherry Blossom Viewing 2014: 9.65Japan Contest Spring 2014: 9.50JRCA Kansai Spring 2014: 9.46Kawasaki Spring 2014: 9.56JRCA Kansai Summer 2014: 9.36Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2014: 8.71Sapporo Open 2014: 9.55Japan Contest Autumn 2014: 10.09Asian Championship 2014: 11.41UT Open 2014: 9.63Tachikawa 3x3 Fest 2014: 7.53Kyushu Open 2014: 8.56JRCA Kansai Winter 2015: 9.41Tokyo Pyraminx Open 2015: 10.16Kansai Open 2015: 9.53Japan Contest Spring 2015: 10.72Kawasaki Summer 2015: 10.53World Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 9.16East Japan Big Cubes 2015: 10.05Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2015: 10.06Tohoku Open 2015: 10.03Japan Open 2015: 9.30JRCA Kansai Fall 2015: 10.11UT Open 2015: 9.86Meguro 3x3 Fest 2015: 9.13Kyushu Open 2015: 9.21JRCA Kansai Winter 2016: 8.08Kansai Open 2016: 10.02Kanto Spring 2016: 9.38Cherry Blossom Viewing 2016: 8.34Kawasaki Spring 2016: 9.78JRCA Kansai Spring 2016: 9.56Kanto Summer 2016: 8.93Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2016: 9.31Tachikawa Open 2016: 8.70Asian Championship 2016: 9.22Japan Open 2016: 9.25Kansai Small Cubes 2016: 9.38Tribox Open Winter 2017: 9.45Circles Open Spring 2017: 9.39Kansai Open 2017: 9.15Tohoku Open 2017: 9.81Meguro 2017: 9.47JRCA Kansai Spring 2017: 9.14London Open 2017: 8.46World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 9.05Tokyo Pyraminx Open 2017: 8.48Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2017: 10.11Yokohama 2017: 9.30CWR Fall 2017: 10.85Suginami Open 2017: 8.06Taiwan Championship 2017: 9.67Japan Open 2017: 9.54TMU Open 2018: 9.28YRCC Open 2018: 9.08Tribox Open Spring 2018: 9.53Kyoto Open 2018: 8.12Omiya Bigs 2018: 9.10WCA Asian Championship 2018: 10.32Tokyo Pyraminx Returns 2018: 7.85Hiroshima 2018: 8.23Kansai Big Cube 2018: 9.58Saitama 2018: 7.36Japan Championship 2018: 9.64JRCA Kansai Winter 2019: 8.94Ayase 2019: 9.32Tribox Open Spring 2019: 9.37Reiwa Anniversary 2019: 9.59Cubing Operating System Summer 2019: 9.76Warm Up Sydney 2019: 8.23WCA World Championship 2019: 8.69Kurukuru Summer 2019: 9.31Ayase Autumn 2019: 7.92Japan Championship 2019: 9.62Hiroshima Open 2019: 8.25Ayase 2020: 10.11Welcome Back Ayase Winter 2020: 10.31Tokai Winter AM 2021: 9.96Minatomirai 2022: 9.20Yoga Summer A 2022: 8.26Ayase Autumn B 2022: 8.95Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 8.36Katano Milky Way 2024: 9.61Shin Kong Cube Open - New Taipei 2024: 9.30Kanto Spring 2025: 8.80Kansai Odd and BLD 2025: 8.63Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 10.18Kanto Summer AM 2025: 7.96Tokyo Winter 2025: 9.10Shimonoseki 2025: 8.95Ota Winter 2026: 9.97Otsu Biwako Winter 2026: 8.93Kanto Winter 2026: 9.01Tokyo Spring 2026: 9.31Kanto Summer 2026: 8.007.3617.335 May 200829 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 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 0.72 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.36 away.

Targets move as he improves.