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Yohei Hayashi (林洋平)

3×3 · top 9.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2018 · 2018HAYA01

Yohei Hayashi (林洋平) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.59, set at Yoga Summer B 2022, puts him in the top 9.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 403rd in Japan. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since May 2018, he has put 103 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.15 in May 2018 to 10.59, a 30% improvement. Yohei has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.2% of 284,439 all-time
10.59
signature single · Yoga Summer B 2022
103
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×310.5913.29
top 9.2%403 / 3,329
3×3 blindfolded2:13.73
early days — 2 solves152 / 282

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

Tribox Open Spring 2018: 15.15Japan Championship 2018: 15.90Tribox Open Spring 2019: 14.53Ayase 2020: 14.45Minatomirai 2022: 13.73Yoga Summer B 2022: 10.59Tokyo Challenge Winter B 2023: 13.01Hiroshima Spring 2023: 12.94Tokyo Challenge V 2023: 15.25Kanazawa Challenge Spring PM 2023: 11.30Otsu Biwako Autumn 2023: 13.78Tokyo Challenge VIII 2023: 14.10Shonan PM 2024: 14.01Tokyo Open PM Winter 2025: 13.81Tokai Spring 2025: 12.73Tokyo Spring PM 2025: 11.22Kanto Spring 2025: 12.01Kanto Summer PM 2025: 11.80Kanto Autumn PM 2025: 12.76Tokyo Winter 2025: 10.9810.5915.905 May 20187 Dec 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.59 away.
  • A sub-2:00 3×3 blindfolded single — 4,077 people have one; it is 13.73 away.

Targets move as he improves.