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Nile Yamazaki

3×3 · top 20.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2023 · 2023YAMA01

Nile Yamazaki has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.79, set at Beach Bash Jacksonville 2024, puts him in the top 20.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 10,904th in the United States. Across 6 competitions since January 2023, he has put 95 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 26.28 in January 2023 to 13.79, a 48% improvement. Nile has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 20.2% of 284,439 all-time
13.79
signature single · Beach Bash Jacksonville 2024
95
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×313.7918.53
top 20.2%10,904 / 59,724
2×25.217.27
top 41.9%16,848 / 40,951
Pyraminx9.0410.60
top 45.2%13,009 / 28,708
4×41:20.111:28.26
top 56.0%9,609 / 19,072
Megaminx2:39.56
early days — 2 solves5,039 / 7,841
Skewb12.4122.72
top 68.1%12,762 / 18,907
Square-146.53
top 72.7%4,785 / 6,743
5×54:15.23
top 93.4%8,874 / 9,401
6×68:01.45
early days — 1 solve4,101 / 4,196

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

Pegasus 2023: 26.28Fountain City 2023: 24.87Jacksonville Winter 2023: 23.26Beach Bash Jacksonville 2024: 13.79FSUbers 11.0 2026: 17.1613.7926.287 Jan 20237 Mar 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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.79 away.
  • A sub-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.21 away.

Targets move as he improves.