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Niko Paracuellos Shiraishi
2×2 · top 6.0% of 189,179 all-time · competing since June 2025 · 2025SHIR03
Niko Paracuellos Shiraishi has been competing for a year. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.17, set at Sarriguren Open 2025, puts him in the top 6.0% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 75th in Japan. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 14 competitions since June 2025, he has put 395 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 93% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 2×2 best has come down from 3.19 in June 2025 to 2.17, a 32% improvement. Niko has entered 14 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Japan | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 2.17 | 3.23 | top 6.0% | 75 / 1,026 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.99 | 12.29 | top 20.0% | 219 / 691 | |
| Skewb | 6.77 | 14.24 | top 31.9% | 174 / 354 | |
| 3×3 | 21.53 | 26.05 | top 44.3% | 1,641 / 3,360 | |
| Clock | 16.95 | 20.58 | top 55.4% | 198 / 268 | |
| 4×4 | 1:43.77 | — | top 73.2% | 596 / 679 | |
| Megaminx | 3:24.40 | — | top 82.1% | 288 / 313 |
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, 2×2. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 6 Dec 2025Four personal bests in one day at Spanish Championship 2025.
- 9 Aug 2025First sub-30 3×3: 29.52 at Portugalete Open 2025.
- 21 Jun 2025First competition: Cintruénigo Open 2025. A 33.21 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Bilbao Open 2026 · 5 Sep 2026
- Japan Championship 2026 · 18 Jul 2026
- Cintruenigo Open 2026 · 27 Jun 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Gares Open 2026 · 30 May 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Gasteiz Open 2026 · 18 Apr 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Jesuitinas Txantrea Open 2026 · 11 Apr 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Urnieta Open 2026 · 28 Mar 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Iruña Open 2026 · 14 Mar 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Amore Amorebieta Open 2026 · 21 Feb 2026
- Spanish Championship 2025 · 6 Dec 2025 — 4 personal bests set
- Sarriguren Open 2025 · 25 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Bilbao Open 2025 · 30 Aug 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Portugalete Open 2025 · 9 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Cintruénigo Open 2025 · 21 Jun 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.
- Haru Paracuellos Shiraishi — met in 93 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
- Aitor Ibañez Larrea — met in 92 rounds, never finished ahead
- Pablo Fraile Menendez — met in 86 rounds, finished ahead 19 times
Next targets
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.17 away.
- A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,242 people have one; it is 0.99 away.
Targets move as he improves.