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Yuya Ito (伊藤友哉)

3×3 · top 4.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2015 · 2015ITOY02

Yuya Ito (伊藤友哉) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.97, set at Reiwa Anniversary 2019, puts him in the top 4.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 197th in Japan. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since August 2015, he has put 137 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 78% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.02 in August 2015 to 8.97, a 25% improvement. Yuya has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.8% of 284,439 all-time
8.97
signature single · Reiwa Anniversary 2019
137
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 78% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×38.9711.14
top 4.8%197 / 3,329
3×3 blindfolded45.31
top 8.3%40 / 282
Skewb5.7312.70
top 23.7%121 / 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

East Japan Big Cubes 2015: 12.02Japan Open 2015: 12.44UT Open 2015: 11.40JRCA Kansai Winter 2016: 12.72Kawasaki Spring 2016: 10.13Kanto Summer 2016: 10.87Japan Open 2016: 9.45Tribox Open Winter 2017: 9.83Circles Open Spring 2017: 11.83Kansai Open 2017: 9.90Tohoku Open 2017: 10.11Meguro 2017: 12.25TMU Open 2018: 11.26YRCC Open 2018: 9.14WCA Asian Championship 2018: 11.40Reiwa Anniversary 2019: 8.978.9712.728 Aug 20151 Jun 2019

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 0.97 away.
  • A sub-40 3×3 blindfolded single — 826 people have one; it is 5.31 away.

Targets move as he improves.