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Yuki Nagai

Pyraminx · top 0.17% of 130,891 all-time · competing since March 2022 · 2022NAGA02

Yuki Nagai has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.24, set at M Moves in Middlebury 2024, puts him in the top 0.17% of the 130,891 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 59th in the United States. Until January 2018, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 91 competitions since March 2022, he has put 3,947 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 76% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.17 in March 2022 to 6.41, a 67% improvement. Yuki has entered 91 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.17% of 130,891 all-time
1.24
signature single · M Moves in Middlebury 2024
3,947
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 76% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Pyraminx1.241.79
top 0.17%59 / 29,168
2×20.832.41
top 0.27%117 / 41,674
Skewb1.443.63
top 0.36%58 / 19,164
3×36.419.32
top 0.79%514 / 60,666
Clock3.083.86
top 0.84%82 / 9,172
Square-19.1012.93
top 4.6%348 / 6,846
3×3 one-handed14.0918.06
top 6.4%885 / 15,900
4×437.1441.61
top 8.9%1,361 / 19,354
Megaminx59.191:08.61
top 9.6%684 / 8,026
5×51:17.401:30.56
top 17.2%1,350 / 9,537
3×3 Fewest Moves31 moves38.33
top 17.5%387 / 2,059
3×3 blindfolded1:44.392:15.27
top 28.2%588 / 2,128
6×63:27.453:43.04
top 53.9%2,066 / 4,262
7×76:23.536:27.92
early days — 3 solves2,299 / 3,236

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

Happy Valley Spring 2022: 19.17Saint John's Spring 2022: 16.59Princeton Spring 2022: 18.64CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022: 13.11Pennsylvania Championship 2022: 13.97Owings Mills Summer 2022: 11.04Amherst Open 2022: 13.65Princeton Fall 2022: 13.05West Chester Fall 2022: 12.61Pioneer Valley Cubing B 2023: 11.29Empire State Winter Warmup 2023: 7.91Pretzel Mania 2023: 10.40GCU Spring 2023: 10.70North Jersey Speedsolving A 2023: 10.93Jay House of Cubes 2023: 10.80Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 10.69Berwick Fall 2023: 9.52CubingUSA New England Championship 2023: 9.44Hudson Valley 2023: 8.14GCU Winter 2024: 9.64Parsippany Mini AM 2024: 7.75Empire State Winter 2024: 9.76Cubing in Mount Kisco 2024: 8.98PBs in Palisades 2024: 9.43Happy Valley Spring 2024: 8.41Ridgefield Spring 2024: 9.29It's About Time Bloomsburg 2024: 8.66Spring into Summit 2024: 10.57North Jersey Speedsolving B 2024: 9.10New Jersey Championship 2024: 8.58Pennsylvania Championship 2024: 10.13Saratoga Springs Summer 2024: 8.43CubingUSA New England Championship 2024: 9.44Hudson Valley Summer 2024: 9.97High Five Bloomsburg 2024: 8.33An Afternoon in Nyack 2024: 10.71Christmas City Cubing PA 2024: 8.88M Moves in Middlebury 2024: 8.69Springfield Cube Day 2024: 10.52Cubing-on-Hudson AM 2024: 9.22Amherst Fall 2024: 10.28Kisco Cubing 2025: 9.00Pop Off Princeton 2025: 9.34PBs in Palisades Open 2025: 9.30Rutgers Winter 2025: 9.14Empire State Winter 2025: 8.86PBs in Palisades Winter 2025: 8.68Liberty Science Center Open B 2025: 9.52Catskills Spring 2025: 8.85PBs in Palisades Spring 2025: 9.62American Dream NJ 2025: 8.90Connecticut Spring 2025: 8.96Worlds Prep in Palisades 2025: 8.68Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.41CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 8.41Ephrata Fall 2025: 8.31Christmas City Cubing PA 2025: 9.37Brooklyn Waldorf Winter 2025: 8.70New York New Year 2025: 10.84Westport Icebreaker 2026: 8.26Wide Moves & Waterslides CT 2026: 8.23Berkshires Cube Day at BART 2026: 8.95PBs in Palisades Open 2026: 9.11Liberty Science Center Open A 2026: 8.44Lodi Solves Spring 2026: 8.72King of Prussia Spring 2026: 9.14PBs in Palisades Spring 2026: 8.67Ephrata Spring 2026: 7.62New Providence Spring PM 2026: 8.39No Clocks in Greenpoint 2026: 8.71RCBC Cube Day NJ 2026: 9.33NAC Prep in Palisades 2026: 8.11Westport Summer 2026: 9.36Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 9.44Liberty Science Center Fall B 2026: 9.24Putnam Lake 2026: 8.73Christmas City Cubing PA 2026: 9.36CubingUSA New England Championship 2026: 8.506.4119.1726 Mar 202216 Oct 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.

  • Ayden Dincher — met in 475 rounds, finished ahead 82 times
  • Rex Ozsvath — met in 466 rounds, finished ahead 278 times
  • Evan Liu — met in 380 rounds, finished ahead 108 times

Next targets

  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.24 away.
  • A sub-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.44 away.

Targets move as he improves.