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Shunsuke Wada (和田俊輔)

3×3 · top 3.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2016 · 2016WADA01

Shunsuke Wada (和田俊輔) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.15, set at Tokyo Spring AM 2025, puts him in the top 3.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 130th in Japan. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since October 2016, he has put 477 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 84% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.54 in October 2016 to 8.15, a 44% improvement. Shunsuke has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.1% of 284,439 all-time
8.15
signature single · Tokyo Spring AM 2025
477
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 84% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×38.159.13
top 3.1%130 / 3,329
3×3 blindfolded27.40—
top 3.5%17 / 282
4×434.9538.81
top 6.6%71 / 667
2×22.263.75
top 6.7%87 / 1,021
Megaminx1:00.311:05.54
top 10.2%74 / 313
3×3 Fewest Moves29 moves33.33
top 12.2%55 / 201
5×51:15.391:24.91
top 15.6%98 / 420
3×3 one-handed19.5722.19
top 19.4%164 / 529
3×3 Multi-Blind11 of 13 cubes · 55:52—
early days — 3 solves31 / 128
Pyraminx6.388.23
top 22.9%245 / 688
Skewb5.809.93
top 24.2%124 / 338
4×4 blindfolded8:40.08—
early days — 3 solves32 / 81
6×63:21.333:29.13
early days — 3 solves124 / 209
7×75:16.825:36.37
early days — 3 solves118 / 188
Square-135.1246.34
top 58.6%178 / 245
Clock23.5433.27
top 73.7%235 / 263
5×5 blindfolded28:08.00—
early days — 1 solve39 / 50

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

Japan Open 2016: 14.54Tribox Open Winter 2017: 13.77Circles Open Spring 2017: 10.84Tohoku Open 2017: 10.13Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2017: 10.20Japan Open 2017: 11.31TMU Open 2018: 10.58YRCC Open 2018: 10.07Tribox Open Spring 2018: 9.43Omiya Bigs 2018: 9.69Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2018: 9.35Tohoku 2018: 9.63Japan Championship 2018: 9.98Tohoku 2019: 8.30Japan Championship 2019: 8.35Tokai Open 2023: 8.89Kanazawa 2024: 8.52Taiwan Championship 2024: 9.44Tokyo Spring AM 2025: 8.15Kanto Summer PM 2025: 9.438.1514.549 Oct 201630 Aug 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.15 away.
  • A sub-25 3×3 blindfolded single — 355 people have one; it is 2.40 away.

Targets move as he improves.