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Harunosuke Yoshida (吉田陽之丞)

3×3 · top 0.47% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2025 · 2025YOSH06

Harunosuke Yoshida (吉田陽之丞) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.98, set at Tokyo Spring 2026, puts him in the top 0.47% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 18th in Japan. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since May 2025, he has put 160 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 82% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.06 in May 2025 to 5.98, a 34% improvement. Harunosuke has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.47% of 284,439 all-time
5.98
signature single · Tokyo Spring 2026
160
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 82% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×35.987.62
top 0.47%18 / 3,329
3×3 one-handed11.8015.18
top 2.7%30 / 529
Pyraminx4.125.99
top 8.3%103 / 688
2×22.813.16
top 12.1%162 / 1,021
4×449.3756.90
top 23.9%249 / 667

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

Kanto Spring 2025: 9.06Kanto Summer AM 2025: 8.14Kanto Autumn AM 2025: 8.23Ota Autumn 2025: 6.76Tokyo Winter 2025: 7.06Ota Winter 2026: 7.03Kanto Winter 2026: 6.90Tokyo Spring 2026: 5.98Kanto Spring 2026: 6.80Kanto Summer 2026: 6.915.989.0631 May 202529 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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.98 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 1.80 away.

Targets move as he improves.