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Yoji Ogura (小倉洋二)

3×3 · top 0.37% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2017 · 2017OGUR02

Yoji Ogura (小倉洋二) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.80, set at BC Championship 2026, puts him in the top 0.37% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 11th in Japan. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 62 competitions since March 2017, he has put 1,273 official solves on the record across six 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 32.01 in March 2017 to 5.80, an 82% improvement. Yoji has entered 62 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.37% of 284,439 all-time
5.80
signature single · BC Championship 2026
1,273
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
3×35.807.48
top 0.37%11 / 3,329
4×430.3134.82
top 3.0%40 / 667
2×21.752.34
top 3.3%45 / 1,021
Skewb3.318.10
top 6.6%35 / 338
3×3 one-handed15.8719.59
top 9.9%97 / 529
Pyraminx6.0910.66
top 20.7%223 / 688

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

Circles Open Spring 2017: 32.01Meguro 2017: 20.88JRCA Kansai Spring 2017: 17.64CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 24.80Kansai Summer 2017: 15.76Petoskey Cubing 2017: 13.15Northwest Championships 2017: 21.96Yokohama 2017: 15.17Kansai Fall 2017: 14.95Suginami Open 2017: 14.93Japan Open 2017: 12.92Lluís Vives Open 2017: 12.60TMU Open 2018: 12.14Kobe Open 2018: 11.63YRCC Open 2018: 12.40Kansai Open 2018: 10.70Tribox Open Spring 2018: 14.49Kyoto Open 2018: 11.45Omiya Bigs 2018: 13.21Kansai Summer 2018: 12.20CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 13.04Michigan 2018: 11.94Michigan Cubing Club Beta 2019: 9.753rd Coast Cubing 2019: 9.29CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 12.05Michigan 2019: 11.37Kansai Summer 2019: 9.71Ayase Autumn 2019: 10.98Kyoto Open 2019: 9.29Japan Championship 2019: 8.21Hiroshima Open 2019: 9.17Hawaii Big Island 2020: 9.64Welcome Back Ayase Winter 2020: 10.33Tokai Winter AM 2021: 8.53Minatomirai 2022: 7.63Ota Summer 2022: 7.85Yoga Summer B 2022: 7.33Hono Luau Cube Off 2022: 7.89WCC Western Championship 2022: 7.60Ayase Autumn A 2022: 6.93Taiwan Championship 2022: 7.07Oʻahu ʻOhana Cubing 2023: 8.31Tokyo Challenge Winter C 2023: 8.10Hiroshima Spring 2023: 6.22Honolulu H-Perm Hōʻike 2023: 7.24Kailua-Kona Cubing 2023: 7.51Canadian Championship 2023: 6.17CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 7.16Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 7.24Ho'oholo in Honolulu 2023: 7.05Hawaiʻi Big Island Winter 2024: 7.01Honolulu Kupulau 2024: 6.52Honolulu Hāʻulelau 2024: 7.00Hawaiʻi Big Island Winter 2025: 7.08Kansai Odd and BLD 2025: 7.24Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 7.18Tokyo Summer 2025: 7.50Kanto Winter 2026: 7.25Kanto Spring 2026: 6.88Japan Championship 2026: 7.68Hawaii Championship 2026: 6.19BC Championship 2026: 5.805.8032.014 Mar 20177 Aug 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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.80 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 0.31 away.

Targets move as he improves.