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Yota Ueda (上田陽太)

3×3 · top 0.62% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2016 · 2016UEDA01

Yota Ueda (上田陽太) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.20, set at TMU Open 2018, puts him in the top 0.62% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 30th in Japan. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 24 competitions since May 2016, he has put 574 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.40 in May 2016 to 6.20, a 46% improvement. Yota has entered 24 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.62% of 284,439 all-time
6.20
signature single · TMU Open 2018
574
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×36.208.74
top 0.62%30 / 3,329
4×430.9934.41
top 3.5%43 / 667
Megaminx49.4456.59
top 4.9%38 / 313
5×51:00.121:05.29
top 5.6%44 / 420
7×72:52.212:56.69
top 8.5%21 / 188
6×61:56.272:03.62
top 9.6%30 / 209
3×3 one-handed17.4920.86
top 13.8%125 / 529
Pyraminx5.208.37
top 14.4%169 / 688
2×23.615.34
top 21.6%269 / 1,021

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

Kawasaki Spring 2016: 11.40Kanto Summer 2016: 8.22JRCA Kansai Summer 2016: 11.16Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2016: 10.69Japan Open 2016: 10.92Tribox Open Winter 2017: 11.24Circles Open Spring 2017: 9.67Kansai Open 2017: 10.19Tohoku Open 2017: 8.78Meguro 2017: 10.46World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 9.63Yokohama 2017: 9.60Suginami Open 2017: 10.25Japan Open 2017: 8.92TMU Open 2018: 6.20YRCC Open 2018: 9.59Tribox Open Spring 2018: 9.04Omiya Bigs 2018: 9.43WCA Asian Championship 2018: 8.68Tokyo Pyraminx Returns 2018: 8.93Philippine Championship 2018: 8.21Ota Autumn 2025: 7.91Kanto Winter 2026: 8.266.2011.408 May 201621 Feb 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.20 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 0.99 away.

Targets move as he improves.