Competitions · Japan

Japan Open 2016

Tokyo · 9 October 2016 · 18 events · 184 competitors · 134 personal bests

Tomoya Iida (飯田朋也) won four of the 18 events (4×4, 5×5, 6×6) and the closest final was the 2×2, won by Sinpei Araki (荒木慎平) by 0.03 seconds. 184 competitors produced 134 personal bests, 44 of which still stand today, and 32 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

A national record

Tomoya Iida (飯田朋也) set the 5×5 single national record: 52.69.

Four wins

Tomoya Iida (飯田朋也) — 4×4, 5×5, 6×6, 7×7

0.03s

closest final — 2×2, Sinpei Araki (荒木慎平) over Atsuto Takemura (竹村篤人)

134

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Arifumi Fushimi (伏見有史)	8.22	8.80
2×2	Sinpei Araki (荒木慎平)	2.24	2.45
4×4	Tomoya Iida (飯田朋也)	31.77	37.06
5×5	Tomoya Iida (飯田朋也)	58.93	1:04.93
6×6	Tomoya Iida (飯田朋也)	2:05.64	2:13.09
7×7	Tomoya Iida (飯田朋也)	3:19.21	3:26.20
3×3 blindfolded	Yuki Yamamoto (山本祐輝)	31.05	—
3×3 Fewest Moves	Toru Morooka (諸岡徹)	24 moves	—
3×3 one-handed	Arifumi Fushimi (伏見有史)	10.66	15.42
Clock	Ryuji Hamano (浜野竜二)	8.43	8.90
Megaminx	Arifumi Fushimi (伏見有史)	51.77	55.36
Pyraminx	Yohei Oka (岡要平)	3.32	4.23
Skewb	Noriyuki Okada (岡田典之)	3.34	4.04
Square-1	Kou Oobatake (大畠功)	12.69	14.87
4×4 blindfolded	Tomoyuki Hiraide (平出智之)	3:16.82	4:16.88
5×5 blindfolded	Yuhei Takagi (高木佑平)	21:19.00	—
3×3 Multi-Blind	Yuki Yamamoto (山本祐輝)	18 of 20 cubes · 51:50	—
3×3 with feet	Yuhei Takagi (高木佑平)	35.86	39.62

The PB harvest

134 set · 44 still standing

Toru Morooka (諸岡徹) — 3×3 Fewest Moves single 24 moves: into the top 4.0% of the event's history.
Natan Goldberg — Skewb single 3.44: into the top 7.3% of the event's history.
Katsuki Takahashi (高橋勝紀) — 3×3 single 10.11: into the top 7.8% of the event's history.
Natan Goldberg — 2×2 single 2.49: into the top 8.8% of the event's history.
Masato Kobayashi (小林正人) — 3×3 one-handed single 15.40: into the top 8.9% of the event's history.
Kotaro Enoki (榎康太郎) — 3×3 single 10.53: into the top 9.0% of the event's history.
Fumiya Matsui (松井郁也) — 2×2 single 2.52: into the top 9.1% of the event's history.
Fumiya Matsui (松井郁也) — 3×3 one-handed single 16.11: into the top 10.5% of the event's history.

First-timers

32 people competed for the first time at this competition, joining the 17,946 people who made their debut in 2016. Start here explains what a first competition is like.

Records watch

4 regional records were set at this competition.

The field

184 competitors · 630 results · 18 events.

Solve this final yourself

how this works →

The 3×3 final here ran on one scramble group, so these five sequences are exactly what the finalists faced. Arifumi Fushimi (伏見有史) won it with a 8.80 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.

1B2 D2 U2 L F2 L2 B2 R2 D R D F' L D B' L F D2 L'
2U2 B U2 L2 B' D2 F2 D2 F' D2 L' B2 D' R D L' F' D2 B2 D
3U L2 B2 U2 B2 U L2 D' L' B' F U' B2 D U2 R D' B' U
4F2 D' B2 D B2 U' F2 D' U' B' R B2 L D' U F L D' R
5D B2 D2 U B2 R2 D L2 B2 F L2 B2 R D B' U' F R B2 L2

solve 1

solve 2

solve 3

solve 4

solve 5

Race this final

Everyone who competed

184 competitors

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 final is a competition's last round; its order decides the podium · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · every solve starts from a computer-generated scramble, the same for every competitor in a round.