People · Japan
Ryota Yuzawa (湯澤亮太)
3×3 · top 1.0% of 288,433 all-time · competing since August 2025 · 2025YUZA01
Ryota Yuzawa (湯澤亮太) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.70, set at Japan Championship 2026, puts him in the top 1.0% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 45th in Japan. Until January 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since August 2025, he has put 125 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 8 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 7.97 in August 2025 to 6.70, a 16% improvement. Ryota has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Japan | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 6.70 | 9.17 | top 1.0% | 45 / 3,360 | |
| 5×5 | 47.80 | 53.98 | top 1.3% | 11 / 426 | |
| Clock | 4.16 | 6.39 | top 2.6% | 10 / 268 | |
| 6×6 | 1:33.87 | 1:40.71 | top 2.6% | 8 / 209 | |
| 7×7 | 2:24.54 | — | early days — 2 solves | 6 / 188 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 12.01 | 14.69 | top 3.0% | 32 / 539 | |
| Megaminx | 53.27 | 1:04.43 | top 6.7% | 50 / 313 | |
| Square-1 | 13.26 | 15.91 | top 12.5% | 52 / 251 | |
| Skewb | 5.71 | 6.75 | top 23.6% | 129 / 354 |
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, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 30 Aug 2025First competition: Kanto Summer PM 2025. A 7.97 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Otsu Biwako Autumn 2026 · 20 Sep 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Kanto Summer 2026 · 29 Aug 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Japan Championship 2026 · 18 Jul 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Tokyo Summer 2026 · 13 Jun 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Ota Winter 2026 · 25 Jan 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Kanto Autumn PM 2025 · 11 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Kanto Summer PM 2025 · 30 Aug 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.
- Takumi Kawazoe (川添匠) — met in 23 rounds, finished ahead 7 times
- Takayuki Tanaka (田中隆喜) — met in 19 rounds, finished ahead 15 times
- Zirui Wang (王子睿) — met in 18 rounds, finished ahead 16 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.70 away.
- A sub-40 5×5 single — 73 people have one; it is 7.80 away.
Targets move as he improves.