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Ryohei Yoshioka (吉岡亮平)

2×2 · top 21.7% of 186,767 all-time · competing since May 2011 · 2011YOSH01

Ryohei Yoshioka (吉岡亮平) has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 3.62, set at Tribox Open Spring 2019, puts him in the top 21.7% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 271st in Japan. Across 82 competitions since May 2011, he has put 1,308 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 69% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 55.94 in May 2011 to 15.92, a 72% improvement. Ryohei has entered 82 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 21.7% of 186,767 all-time
3.62
signature single · Tribox Open Spring 2019
1,308
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 69% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
2×23.626.07
top 21.7%271 / 1,021
Pyraminx6.418.19
top 23.1%247 / 688
3×315.9221.61
top 27.5%1,110 / 3,329
Clock10.8312.34
top 29.3%110 / 263
Skewb7.5011.52
top 37.5%184 / 338
4×41:09.761:19.93
top 46.6%434 / 667
5×52:00.182:20.27
top 49.3%264 / 420
3×3 one-handed33.1650.21
top 53.7%385 / 529
Square-135.0544.36
top 58.5%177 / 245
3×3 Fewest Moves43 moves52.67
top 59.0%139 / 201
Megaminx2:45.003:10.50
top 68.1%274 / 313
6×64:26.544:39.83
top 73.6%169 / 209
7×76:34.206:37.71
top 75.2%152 / 188

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

West Japan Big Cubes 2011: 55.94Japan Open 2011: 35.94World Rubik's Cube Championship 2011: 32.86Matsudo Autumn 2011: 27.30Kyotanabe Open 2011: 29.36Kansai New Year 2012: 27.00Kyushu Open 2012: 25.21Kansai Open 2012: 25.55Matsudo Spring 2012: 26.84Tokai Open 2012: 21.52Kyotanabe Open 2012: 22.68Kawasaki Open 2012: 22.34Kansai Star Festival 2012: 22.94Kanto Open 2012: 23.84Hiroshima Open 2012: 22.66Japan Open 2012: 20.81East Osaka 2012: 22.38Japan Contest 2012: 22.40West Japan Big Cube 2012: 22.80Hokuriku Eve Open 2012: 20.50Kansai Open 2013: 22.63Cherry Blossom Viewing Open 2013: 19.46Japan Open 2013: 23.77Lake-Biwa Open 2013: 24.08Kansai Star Festival 2013: 22.43East Osaka 2013: 23.47West Japan Big Cube 2013: 18.84UT Open 2013: 21.34Kyushu Open 2013: 20.46JRCA Kansai Winter 2014: 23.78Kansai Open 2014: 22.81Cherry Blossom Viewing 2014: 27.31West Japan Big Cube 2014: 23.56Sapporo Open 2014: 22.28Tokyo Pyraminx Open 2015: 23.72Kansai Open 2015: 21.72JRCA Kansai Spring 2015: 19.38JRCA Kansai Summer 2015: 21.81Japan Open 2015: 22.63Kanto Spring 2016: 23.75JRCA Kansai Summer 2016: 23.30Japan Open 2016: 21.55Kansai Open 2017: 20.74Kansai Summer 2017: 21.41Tokyo Pyraminx Open 2017: 15.92Japan Open 2017: 21.47YRCC Open 2018: 19.94Tribox Open Spring 2018: 19.38Omiya Bigs 2018: 20.55Kansai Summer 2018: 20.08WCA Asian Championship 2018: 19.74Tokyo Pyraminx Returns 2018: 21.45Japan Championship 2018: 21.99Ayase 2019: 18.11Tribox Open Spring 2019: 21.09Reiwa Anniversary 2019: 19.92Tokai Open 2019: 19.71Kurukuru Summer 2019: 20.18Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2019: 21.26Ayase Autumn 2019: 19.55Hiroshima Open 2019: 20.40Ayase 2020: 21.81Kanazawa Open 2020: 18.98Tokyo Challenge VIII 2023: 23.95Shonan AM 2024: 26.04Tokyo Open PM Winter 2025: 23.89Kanto Spring 2025: 22.12Tokyo Summer 2025: 24.64Kanto Summer PM 2025: 23.04Kanto Autumn AM 2025: 23.54Ota Autumn 2025: 22.70Tokyo Winter 2025: 23.56Kanto Winter 2026: 24.29Kanto Spring 2026: 18.3715.9255.9421 May 201117 May 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-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.62 away.
  • A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 0.41 away.

Targets move as he improves.