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Hinata Yamada (山田陽向)
3×3 · top 3.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2025 · 2025YAMA01
Hinata Yamada (山田陽向) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.28, set at Kanto Spring 2025, puts him in the top 3.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 138th in Japan. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since February 2025, he has put 85 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. Hinata has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Japan | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 8.28 | 8.99 | top 3.3% | 138 / 3,329 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 15.87 | 18.50 | top 9.9% | 97 / 529 | |
| 4×4 | 38.68 | 49.21 | top 10.5% | 107 / 667 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.64 | 6.48 | top 11.0% | 131 / 688 | |
| 2×2 | 3.26 | 4.05 | top 17.3% | 222 / 1,021 | |
| Square-1 | 21.57 | 31.35 | top 31.5% | 108 / 245 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 16 Feb 2025First competition: Tokyo Open AM Winter 2025. A 8.84 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Kanto Summer 2026 · 29 Aug 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Tokyo BLD Summer 2026 · 25 Jul 2026
- Tokyo Winter 2025 · 7 Dec 2025
- Kanto Summer AM 2025 · 30 Aug 2025
- Kanto Spring 2025 · 31 May 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Tokyo Open AM Winter 2025 · 16 Feb 2025
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.
- Kantaro Sakamoto (坂本貫太郎) — met in 17 rounds, never finished ahead
- Takumi Kato (加藤匠) — met in 16 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
- Harenosuke Eguchi (江口晴之丞) — met in 12 rounds, finished ahead 11 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.28 away.
- A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 5,987 people have one; it is 0.87 away.
Targets move as he improves.