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Yuto Date (伊達優人)

3×3 · top 9.7% of 288,433 all-time · competing since September 2018 · 2018DATE01

Yuto Date (伊達優人) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.72, set at Ota Summer 2022, puts him in the top 9.7% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 434th in Japan. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 30 competitions since September 2018, he has put 350 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 77% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.10 in September 2018 to 10.72, a 37% improvement. Yuto has entered 30 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.7% of 288,433 all-time
10.72
signature single · Ota Summer 2022
350
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 77% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×310.7213.75
top 9.7%434 / 3,360
Square-112.8215.86
top 11.6%46 / 251
Pyraminx4.857.72
top 12.3%153 / 691
3×3 blindfolded1:06.95—
top 15.3%73 / 285
Clock8.5113.14
top 17.4%65 / 268
4×446.6650.84
top 20.5%216 / 679
Megaminx1:20.101:27.85
top 21.9%134 / 313
3×3 one-handed21.6026.99
top 25.0%203 / 539
5×51:31.371:41.80
top 28.5%175 / 426
3×3 Multi-Blind8 of 9 cubes · 57:21—
top 29.0%51 / 128
2×24.735.25
top 36.0%444 / 1,026
3×3 Fewest Moves39 moves61.00
top 44.8%120 / 205
6×63:19.063:25.40
top 50.2%125 / 209
4×4 blindfolded8:56.58—
top 50.6%36 / 81
7×76:01.636:58.89
top 68.2%136 / 188
Skewb12.5215.74
top 68.6%303 / 354
5×5 blindfolded27:06.00—
early days — 2 solves37 / 50

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

Tohoku 2018: 17.10Japan Championship 2018: 17.66Ayase 2019: 17.46Tribox Open Spring 2019: 17.31Reiwa Anniversary 2019: 15.86Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2019: 16.44Japan Championship 2019: 15.75Ayase 2020: 12.99Minatomirai 2022: 14.81Ota Summer 2022: 10.72Hiroshima Spring 2023: 12.78Otsu Biwako Autumn 2023: 12.77Tokyo Summer 2025: 12.48Katano Summer 2025: 12.70Kanto Autumn AM 2025: 13.90Tokyo Winter 2025: 12.49Ota Winter 2026: 12.10Kanto Spring 2026: 11.40Kanto Summer 2026: 12.86Otsu Biwako Autumn 2026: 14.2410.7217.6615 Sep 201820 Sep 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-10 3×3 single — 21,606 people have one; it is 0.72 away.
  • A sub-12 Square-1 single — 2,552 people have one; it is 0.82 away.

Targets move as he improves.