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Shota Fukuoka

3×3 · top 0.031% of 288,433 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024FUKU04

Shota Fukuoka has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 4.29, set at Liberty Science Center Fall B 2026, puts him in the top 0.031% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 24th in the United States. Until May 2018, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 41 competitions since March 2024, he has put 1,617 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 65% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.06 in March 2024 to 4.29, a 61% improvement. Shota has entered 41 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.031% of 288,433 all-time
4.29
signature single · Liberty Science Center Fall B 2026
1,617
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 65% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×34.296.32
top 0.031%24 / 60,666
Pyraminx1.182.22
top 0.13%48 / 29,168
2×20.861.79
top 0.31%139 / 41,674
3×3 one-handed8.9311.79
top 0.49%75 / 15,900
Square-16.5912.38
top 1.3%103 / 6,846
Skewb2.554.08
top 3.1%485 / 19,164
4×430.7535.26
top 3.4%544 / 19,354
Megaminx53.731:02.51
top 6.9%489 / 8,026
Clock7.568.97
top 13.1%1,027 / 9,172
5×51:14.711:19.04
top 15.2%1,190 / 9,537
6×63:54.714:34.13
top 63.8%2,500 / 4,262

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

Saratoga Springs Newcomers 2024: 11.06Empire State Spring Sprint 2024: 10.42Newark Academy Spring 2024: 9.33An Afternoon in Nyack 2024: 8.91Cubing-on-Hudson PM 2024: 9.31Flushing Open AM 2024: 8.41Binghamton Winter 2025: 7.73Hudson Valley Winter 2025: 9.85Flushing Glow Open PM 2025: 7.18Great Peconic Bay 2025: 7.47Catskills Spring 2025: 6.92Binghamton Cube Day 2025: 8.52NYU Spring 2025: 7.07Summit Summer 2025: 7.38Brookhaven Summer 2025: 6.49CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 6.17Liberty Science Center Fall B 2025: 6.33New York Championship 2025: 5.24Flushing Glow Autumn PM 2025: 6.89Brooklyn Waldorf Winter 2025: 6.21Elmira Miracle 2025: 6.87New York New Year 2025: 7.12Liberty Science Center Open B 2026: 5.95King of Prussia Spring 2026: 5.42Great Peconic Bay 2026: 5.44NAC Prep in Palisades 2026: 5.37Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 6.78Japan Championship 2026: 5.28Shimonoseki Summer 2026: 6.50Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026: 5.03Liberty Science Center Fall B 2026: 4.29Putnam Lake 2026: 5.64Christmas City Cubing PA 2026: 5.89Hazlet Fall 2026: 5.964.2911.0630 Mar 202411 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-4 3×3 single — 41 people have one; it is 0.29 away.
  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.18 away.

Targets move as he improves.