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Sota Nakamura (中村荘太)

5×5 · top 1.8% of 40,792 all-time · competing since December 2021 · 2021NAKA01

Sota Nakamura (中村荘太) has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 5×5: a personal-best single of 50.02, set at Kanto Summer PM 2025, puts him in the top 1.8% of the 40,792 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 15th in Japan. Until August 2014, no official 5×5 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 29 competitions since December 2021, he has put 522 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 76% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.94 in December 2021 to 7.50, a 25% improvement. Sota has entered 29 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

5×5
best event — top 1.8% of 40,792 all-time
50.02
signature single · Kanto Summer PM 2025
522
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 76% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
5×550.0257.11
top 1.8%15 / 420
3×37.509.72
top 2.0%85 / 3,329
Clock4.235.75
top 2.8%11 / 263
4×430.2332.61
top 3.0%39 / 667
6×61:46.541:51.07
top 6.0%16 / 209
Pyraminx3.755.16
top 6.5%83 / 688
7×72:48.322:52.94
top 7.4%17 / 188
Megaminx1:02.331:09.35
top 11.2%82 / 313

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

Tokai Winter PM 2021: 9.94Ayase Autumn B 2022: 10.53Go x Go Kyoto 2023: 9.49Kanazawa Challenge Spring AM 2023: 10.50Tokai Open 2023: 9.13Otsu Biwako Autumn 2023: 8.48Hiroshima Winter 2024: 8.77Katano Milky Way 2024: 8.53Tokai Open PM 2024: 9.23Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2024: 9.65Tokyo Open AM Winter 2025: 8.46Tokai Spring 2025: 9.57Kansai Odd and BLD 2025: 8.32Tokai Summer 2025: 10.12Kanto Summer PM 2025: 8.25Kanto Autumn AM 2025: 7.94Kansai Mega Day 2025: 8.66Ota Autumn 2025: 7.56Ota Winter 2026: 8.71Katano Spring 2026: 8.65Japan Championship 2026: 8.64Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2026: 7.507.5010.5311 Dec 202125 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-50 5×5 single — 713 people have one; it is 0.02 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.50 away.

Targets move as he improves.