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Shoji Nishimura (西村晶司)

3×3 · top 1.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2018 · 2018NISH03

Shoji Nishimura (西村晶司) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.03, set at Ota Autumn 2025, puts him in the top 1.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 60th in Japan. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since June 2018, he has put 350 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 92% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.41 in June 2018 to 7.03, a 57% improvement. Shoji has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.4% of 284,439 all-time
7.03
signature single · Ota Autumn 2025
350
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 92% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×37.038.30
top 1.4%60 / 3,329
2×21.482.75
top 2.1%26 / 1,021
4×428.7633.99
top 2.2%25 / 667
Clock3.915.04
top 2.2%7 / 263
5×551.621:00.76
top 2.3%18 / 420
3×3 one-handed12.0414.75
top 3.0%34 / 529
Pyraminx2.844.49
top 3.1%45 / 688
Megaminx49.2653.50
top 4.8%37 / 313
6×61:51.021:52.29
top 7.5%22 / 209
Skewb3.624.77
top 8.4%44 / 338
7×72:52.973:01.26
top 8.7%23 / 188
Square-116.2019.27
top 19.1%74 / 245
3×3 blindfolded1:35.58—
early days — 3 solves115 / 282
3×3 Multi-Blind5 of 6 cubes · 43:24—
early days — 1 solve77 / 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

Omiya Bigs 2018: 16.41Japan Championship 2018: 10.60Tribox Open Spring 2019: 11.94Japan Championship 2019: 10.52Ayase 2020: 10.18Minatomirai 2022: 7.50Yoga Summer B 2022: 7.88Ayase Autumn A 2022: 8.87Tokai Summer 2025: 8.20Kanto Summer PM 2025: 7.08Ota Autumn 2025: 7.03Kanto Winter 2026: 7.11Japan Championship 2026: 7.257.0316.4110 Jun 201818 Jul 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 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.03 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.48 away.

Targets move as he improves.