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Ryota Aoki (青木涼太)

Square-1 · top 2.1% of 25,272 all-time · competing since November 2016 · 2016AOKI02

Ryota Aoki (青木涼太) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the Square-1: a personal-best single of 7.24, set at Kansai Open 2019, puts him in the top 2.1% of the 25,272 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 8th in Japan. Until May 2014, no official Square-1 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since November 2016, he has put 535 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.74 in November 2016 to 10.61, a 28% improvement. Ryota has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

Square-1
best event — top 2.1% of 25,272 all-time
7.24
signature single · Kansai Open 2019
535
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 57% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
Square-17.249.76
top 2.1%8 / 245
Pyraminx2.484.49
top 2.1%34 / 688
Skewb2.905.22
top 4.5%20 / 338
Clock5.466.43
top 5.6%20 / 263
3×310.6112.53
top 9.3%408 / 3,329
3×3 blindfolded1:10.671:54.29
top 16.3%73 / 282
2×23.223.82
top 16.8%220 / 1,021
4×445.5355.03
top 19.0%190 / 667
5×51:23.561:32.07
top 22.0%133 / 420
3×3 one-handed25.0227.51
top 34.3%279 / 529
3×3 Multi-Blind6 of 7 cubes · 37:28—
early days — 2 solves64 / 128
3×3 Fewest Moves38 moves40.67
early days — 3 solves116 / 201
7×75:02.995:35.44
early days — 3 solves104 / 188
4×4 blindfolded10:55.00—
early days — 3 solves47 / 81
5×5 blindfolded28:19.00—
early days — 1 solve40 / 50

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

Kansai Small Cubes 2016: 14.74Kansai Summer 2017: 15.53Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2017: 13.12Yokohama 2017: 13.52Kansai Fall 2017: 13.45Kansai Big Cube 2017: 14.47Kobe Open 2018: 14.14YRCC Open 2018: 11.25Kansai Open 2018: 12.36Kyoto Open 2018: 12.75Kansai Summer 2018: 12.11Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2018: 13.09WCA Asian Championship 2018: 13.48Hiroshima 2018: 12.68Saitama 2018: 11.81Japan Championship 2018: 11.20JRCA Kansai Winter 2019: 12.77Kansai Open 2019: 10.61Kansai Summer 2019: 11.46Ota Winter 2026: 14.2210.6115.5312 Nov 201625 Jan 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 Square-1 single — 201 people have one; it is 1.24 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.48 away.

Targets move as he improves.