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Ao Nogami (野上碧)

3×3 · top 0.075% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2019 · 2019NOGA01

Ao Nogami (野上碧) has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 4.75, set at Japan Championship 2026, puts him in the top 0.075% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in Japan. Until November 2016, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 42 competitions since April 2019, he has put 1,951 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 61% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.47 in April 2019 to 4.75, a 59% improvement. Ao has entered 42 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.075% of 284,439 all-time
4.75
signature single · Japan Championship 2026
1,951
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 61% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×34.756.31
top 0.075%1 / 3,329
2×20.861.19
top 0.31%1 / 1,021
5×542.5846.20
top 0.38%2 / 420
3×3 one-handed9.0710.12
top 0.54%6 / 529
4×424.8030.98
top 0.65%5 / 667
Megaminx35.7339.90
top 0.74%6 / 313
Pyraminx1.753.01
top 0.75%8 / 688
Skewb1.932.98
top 1.2%4 / 338
6×61:31.741:36.45
top 2.2%7 / 209
Clock4.546.14
top 3.4%12 / 263
7×72:35.452:50.43
top 4.7%13 / 188
Square-19.2113.17
top 4.8%18 / 245
3×3 Fewest Moves28 moves32.33
top 9.9%47 / 201
3×3 blindfolded1:20.751:36.22
early days — 3 solves88 / 282

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

Tribox Open Spring 2019: 11.47Reiwa Anniversary 2019: 9.09Kurukuru Summer 2019: 11.38Ayase Autumn 2019: 8.84Japan Championship 2019: 9.36Hiroshima Open 2019: 8.17Ayase 2020: 9.99Ota Summer 2022: 7.72Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2022: 5.45Malaysia Cube Championship 2022: 7.06Indonesian Championship 2022: 6.89Tokyo Challenge Winter B 2023: 6.77Singapore Championship 2023: 6.33Tokyo Challenge IV 2023: 6.46Honolulu H-Perm Hōʻike 2023: 5.70Kailua-Kona Cubing 2023: 6.55Maru Cube Day 2023: 5.91Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 6.11Tokai Open 2023: 5.85Otsu Biwako Autumn 2023: 5.41Tokyo Challenge VIII 2023: 6.00Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2023: 5.50Taiwan Championship 2023: 5.54Hiroshima Winter 2024: 6.22Kanazawa 2024: 5.25Taipei Summer Open 2024: 6.23Tokai Open AM 2024: 6.70Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2024: 5.64Shonan PM 2024: 6.39Tokyo Open PM Winter 2025: 5.83Tokai Spring 2025: 5.55Tokyo Spring PM 2025: 5.47Kanto Spring 2025: 6.40Kansai Odd and BLD 2025: 5.54Kanto Summer PM 2025: 5.84Tokyo Spring 2026: 5.73Kanto Spring 2026: 5.95Queensland Open 2026: 5.68Japan Championship 2026: 4.75Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2026: 5.65Kansai Mega Day 2026: 6.12Kanto Summer 2026: 5.204.7511.4728 Apr 201929 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-4 3×3 single — 38 people have one; it is 0.75 away.
  • A sub-40 5×5 single — 68 people have one; it is 2.58 away.

Targets move as he improves.