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Takahiro Aoki (青木尊弘)
Pyraminx · top 0.15% of 130,891 all-time · competing since May 2023 · 2023AOKI02
Takahiro Aoki (青木尊弘) has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.20, set at Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025, puts him in the top 0.15% of the 130,891 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in Japan. Until January 2018, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since May 2023, he has put 335 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 86% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 8.77 in May 2023 to 6.12, a 30% improvement. Takahiro has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Japan | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyraminx | 1.20 | 1.92 | top 0.15% | 1 / 691 | |
| 3×3 | 6.12 | 7.18 | top 0.56% | 24 / 3,360 | |
| 2×2 | 1.44 | 1.70 | top 1.9% | 22 / 1,026 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 11.87 | 15.43 | top 2.8% | 31 / 539 | |
| 4×4 | 29.95 | 33.62 | top 2.9% | 38 / 679 | |
| Skewb | 3.18 | 5.15 | top 6.0% | 30 / 354 | |
| Megaminx | 1:10.25 | 1:15.98 | top 15.8% | 106 / 313 | |
| Square-1 | 20.87 | 25.90 | top 30.0% | 110 / 251 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 15 Sep 2025Three personal bests in one day at Katano Summer 2025.
- 3 Jul 2025Four personal bests in one day at Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025.
- 20 May 2023First competition: St Oliver's Speedy Saturday 2023. A 9.10 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Shimonoseki Summer 2026 · 9 Aug 2026
- Japan Championship 2026 · 18 Jul 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Katano Spring 2026 · 21 Mar 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Shimonoseki 2025 · 28 Dec 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Katano Summer 2025 · 15 Sep 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025 · 3 Jul 2025 — 4 personal bests set
- Daegu Autumn 2024 · 26 Oct 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Tokai Open AM 2024 · 15 Sep 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Katano Milky Way 2024 · 7 Jul 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Hiroshima Winter 2024 · 10 Feb 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023 · 12 Aug 2023 — 1 personal best set
- St Oliver's Speedy Saturday 2023 · 20 May 2023 — 2 personal bests set
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.
- Hajime Miyazaki (宮崎朔) — met in 37 rounds, finished ahead 21 times
- Kohdai Kusatani (草谷幸大) — met in 36 rounds, finished ahead 21 times
- Kantaro Sakamoto (坂本貫太郎) — met in 33 rounds, finished ahead 18 times
Next targets
- A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.20 away.
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.12 away.
Targets move as he improves.