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Shuji Taguchi (田口修士)

Square-1 · top 22.5% of 25,272 all-time · competing since December 2024 · 2024TAGU05

Shuji Taguchi (田口修士) has been competing for a year. His best event is the Square-1: a personal-best single of 17.62, set at Ota Spring 2025, puts him in the top 22.5% of the 25,272 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 85th in Japan. Across 4 competitions since December 2024, he has put 30 official solves on the record across four events. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.87 in December 2024 to 14.47, a 34% improvement. Shuji has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

Square-1
best event — top 22.5% of 25,272 all-time
17.62
signature single · Ota Spring 2025
30
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
Square-117.6231.40
top 22.5%85 / 245
3×314.4718.05
top 22.6%945 / 3,329
3×3 one-handed31.1534.95
top 49.2%370 / 529
Skewb11.9718.42
top 65.9%280 / 338

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

Shonan PM 2024: 21.87Tokyo Spring AM 2025: 17.25Kanto Spring 2025: 14.4714.4721.877 Dec 202431 May 2025

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-15 Square-1 single — 4,160 people have one; it is 2.62 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 2.47 away.

Targets move as he improves.