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Ryouga Hayashi (林竜河)

7×7 · top 7.4% of 14,450 all-time · competing since April 2011 · 2011HAYA02

Ryouga Hayashi (林竜河) has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 7×7: a personal-best single of 2:48.12, set at Ayase Autumn 2019, puts him in the top 7.4% of the 14,450 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 16th in Japan. Until September 2012, no official 7×7 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 66 competitions since April 2011, he has put 1,194 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 76% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 28.88 in April 2011 to 10.96, a 62% improvement. Ryouga has entered 66 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

7×7
best event — top 7.4% of 14,450 all-time
2:48.12
signature single · Ayase Autumn 2019
1,194
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 76% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
7×72:48.122:57.77
top 7.4%16 / 188
5×51:05.711:11.21
top 8.9%57 / 426
6×61:56.922:04.78
top 9.9%31 / 209
3×310.9613.34
top 10.4%458 / 3,360
2×22.785.55
top 11.9%157 / 1,026
Clock7.539.13
top 12.9%48 / 268
4×451.631:00.14
top 26.8%274 / 679
Pyraminx7.189.29
top 29.3%307 / 691
Megaminx1:36.271:44.28
top 32.3%172 / 313
3×3 one-handed32.3538.45
top 52.1%390 / 539
3×3 blindfolded3:46.365:51.82
top 64.9%227 / 285
3×3 Fewest Moves48 moves—
top 74.3%171 / 205
3×3 Multi-Blind1 of 2 cubes · 20:00—
early days — 1 solve122 / 128

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

Matsudo Spring 2011: 28.88Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2011: 24.18Matsudo Autumn 2011: 19.90Hokuriku Eve 2011: 18.13Kansai Open 2012: 16.41Tokai Open 2012: 15.77Rabbit and Turtle 2012: 15.02Kawasaki Open 2012: 14.63Kanto Open 2012: 16.21Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2012: 14.88Japan Open 2012: 14.15West Japan Big Cube 2012: 15.27Kanto Winter 2012: 14.91Rabbit And Turtle 2013: 13.31Kansai Open 2013: 17.30Japan Contest Spring 2013: 13.18Japan Open 2013: 14.31Kanto Open 2014: 13.83Kansai Open 2014: 12.78Japan Contest Spring 2014: 13.22Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2014: 13.28Kansai Open 2015: 14.02Japan Contest Spring 2015: 12.65JRCA Kansai Spring 2015: 12.21World Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 13.57East Japan Big Cubes 2015: 12.05Japan Open 2015: 13.56Kanto Summer 2016: 15.25JRCA Kansai Spring 2017: 14.09Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2017: 13.45Kansai Big Cube 2017: 13.19Japan Open 2017: 12.94Kansai Open 2018: 12.37Omiya Bigs 2018: 13.23WCA Asian Championship 2018: 11.33Kansai Big Cube 2018: 15.01Saitama 2018: 13.84Ayase 2019: 13.78Kansai Open 2019: 12.69Reiwa Anniversary 2019: 11.47WCA World Championship 2019: 15.02Kyoto Open 2019: 11.10Hiroshima Open 2019: 12.18Ayase 2020: 14.16Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 14.06Tokai Open 2023: 12.36Otsu Biwako Autumn 2023: 12.34Katano Milky Way 2024: 11.92Tokai Spring 2025: 12.87Kansai Odd and BLD 2025: 10.96Kanto Summer 2026: 14.03Otsu Biwako Autumn 2026: 12.96Tokai Autumn 2026: 13.1910.9628.8810 Apr 201111 Oct 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-2:00 7×7 single — 86 people have one; it is 48.12 away.
  • A sub-1:00 5×5 single — 2,328 people have one; it is 5.71 away.

Targets move as he improves.