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Masaki Nishimura (西村正輝)

3×3 · top 0.59% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2024 · 2024NISH01

Masaki Nishimura (西村正輝) has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.17, set at Shimonoseki 2025, puts him in the top 0.59% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 28th in Japan. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since February 2024, he has put 74 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 8% around a typical one, steadier than 99% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.44 in February 2024 to 6.17, a 35% improvement. Masaki has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.59% of 284,439 all-time
6.17
signature single · Shimonoseki 2025
74
official solves on the record
8%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 99% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×36.176.96
top 0.59%28 / 3,329
2×22.432.73
top 8.2%113 / 1,021
3×3 one-handed15.4717.37
top 9.1%88 / 529

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

Hiroshima Winter 2024: 9.44Kansai Odd and BLD 2025: 6.64Shimonoseki 2025: 6.17Hiroshima Spring 2026: 6.54Japan Championship 2026: 6.47Shimonoseki Summer 2026: 6.416.179.4410 Feb 20249 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.17 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.43 away.

Targets move as he improves.