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Tomoki Iwanami (岩波知希)

2×2 · top 4.4% of 186,767 all-time · competing since September 2023 · 2023IWAN01

Tomoki Iwanami (岩波知希) has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.94, set at II Candanguim 2024, puts him in the top 4.4% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 54th in Japan. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since September 2023, he has put 468 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 75% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.52 in September 2023 to 9.75, a 41% improvement. Tomoki has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 4.4% of 186,767 all-time
1.94
signature single · II Candanguim 2024
468
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 75% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
2×21.943.59
top 4.4%54 / 1,021
3×39.7511.93
top 6.8%296 / 3,329
Skewb4.897.62
top 17.3%87 / 338
Pyraminx6.678.76
top 25.2%270 / 688
Clock13.4215.12
top 41.4%147 / 263
3×3 one-handed28.7533.87
top 43.8%339 / 529
4×41:08.581:24.22
top 45.5%421 / 667
Megaminx2:24.872:54.75
top 58.8%257 / 313
5×52:43.772:57.89
top 72.1%352 / 420
6×67:53.99
early days — 1 solve203 / 209

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

Cerrado Open 2023: 16.52II Candanguim 2024: 12.82Campeonato do Cerrado ABRACM 2024: 11.79CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2024: 9.76Back to the Cube Ceilândia 2024: 11.26Anápolis Open 2024: 10.67Pequi Open Goiânia 2024: 12.12Escola Canadense de Brasília Open Cube 2024: 11.80Tokyo Spring PM 2025: 11.57Kanto Summer AM 2025: 13.52Kanto Autumn PM 2025: 12.43Ota Autumn 2025: 9.75Tokyo Winter 2025: 10.87Ota Winter 2026: 12.519.7516.528 Sep 202325 Jan 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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.94 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.75 away.

Targets move as he improves.