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Aiki Yaginuma (柳沼愛輝)

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 12.2% of 12,294 all-time · competing since November 2022 · 2022YAGI03

Aiki Yaginuma (柳沼愛輝) has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 29 moves, set at Big N Blind Berwick 2023, puts him in the top 12.2% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 55th in Japan. Across 30 competitions since November 2022, he has put 518 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 93% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 32.89 in November 2022 to 13.20, a 60% improvement. Aiki has entered 30 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 12.2% of 12,294 all-time
29 moves
signature single · Big N Blind Berwick 2023
518
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 93% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×3 Fewest Moves29 moves36.33
top 12.2%55 / 201
Clock7.629.90
top 13.4%49 / 263
3×3 blindfolded1:01.941:27.79
top 13.7%67 / 282
3×3 Multi-Blind10 of 10 cubes · 50:08—
top 16.1%25 / 128
3×313.2018.02
top 18.1%770 / 3,329
2×23.696.09
top 22.6%287 / 1,021
Pyraminx7.9511.53
top 35.8%363 / 688
4×459.411:12.96
top 35.8%353 / 667
4×4 blindfolded7:15.317:35.32
top 38.7%27 / 81
5×5 blindfolded14:40.00—
top 40.2%22 / 50
Square-128.2439.18
top 46.1%145 / 245
Megaminx2:05.142:12.24
top 48.7%233 / 313
3×3 one-handed31.3138.38
top 49.6%372 / 529
Skewb10.2215.26
top 56.3%248 / 338
5×52:32.82—
top 67.1%338 / 420
7×78:12.28—
early days — 2 solves171 / 188
6×66:47.71—
early days — 2 solves199 / 209

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

Melbourne Cube Days 2022: 32.89Tokyo Challenge Winter B 2023: 20.73Speedcubing at Seaworks 2023: 20.59St Oliver's Speedy Sunday 2023: 19.70Victorian Open 2023: 18.03Geelong Winter 2023: 17.04Melbourne Cubing for Kids Saturday 2023: 18.48Cranbourne Spring Saturday 2023: 18.56The Big Cube Melbourne 2023: 17.77Melbourne Summer 2024: 16.24Kanazawa 2024: 18.07Tokai Open AM 2024: 13.85Shonan AM 2024: 18.51Melbourne Summer 2025: 18.06Spark Melbourne February 2025: 13.20VIC State Championship 2025: 17.49Spark Melbourne July 2025: 16.40Puzzling Pakenham Sunday 2025: 15.33Melbourne Cube Days 2025: 17.1213.2032.8912 Nov 202229 Nov 2025

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 Clock single — 2,324 people have one; it is 1.62 away.
  • A sub-1:00 3×3 blindfolded single — 1,593 people have one; it is 1.94 away.

Targets move as he improves.