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Yuki Yamamoto (山本祐輝)

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 0.17% of 12,294 all-time · competing since July 2010 · 2010YAMA04

Yuki Yamamoto (山本祐輝) has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 18 moves, set at Tokyo Open FMC Winter 2025, puts him in the top 0.17% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in Japan. Across 74 competitions since July 2010, he has put 851 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 72% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.13 in July 2010 to 9.64, a 54% improvement. Yuki has entered 74 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 0.17% of 12,294 all-time
18 moves
signature single · Tokyo Open FMC Winter 2025
851
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 72% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×3 Fewest Moves18 moves22.33
top 0.17%1 / 201
3×3 blindfolded22.2727.27
top 2.1%9 / 282
3×3 Multi-Blind24 of 25 cubes · 57:47—
top 3.4%4 / 128
5×5 blindfolded4:59.147:00.07
top 4.2%3 / 50
4×4 blindfolded2:29.562:58.20
top 5.0%3 / 81
3×39.6411.98
top 6.5%281 / 3,329
Clock5.766.44
top 6.5%27 / 263
Pyraminx3.844.53
top 6.9%86 / 688
2×22.473.41
top 8.6%119 / 1,021
4×436.9740.01
top 8.6%87 / 667
Skewb3.865.37
top 10.0%50 / 338
Megaminx1:00.901:06.70
top 10.5%78 / 313
Square-112.5414.99
top 10.9%41 / 245
3×3 one-handed17.1318.03
top 12.9%116 / 529
5×51:13.481:18.24
top 14.2%88 / 420
7×73:25.413:37.99
top 18.2%48 / 188
6×62:24.822:30.14
top 23.0%68 / 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

30th Anniversary MegaHouse Cup 2010: 21.13Matsudo Spring 2011: 15.33Matsudo Spring 2012: 14.36Kawasaki Open 2012: 13.69UT Open 2012: 16.22Japan Open 2015: 13.91Meguro 3x3 Fest 2015: 13.47Kansai Open 2016: 12.53Kanto Spring 2016: 14.63Kanto Summer 2016: 11.33Tachikawa Open 2016: 12.59Asian Championship 2016: 11.54Tribox Open Winter 2017: 12.38Kansai Open 2017: 13.12Meguro 2017: 12.60Suginami Open 2017: 10.15Kansai Big Cube 2017: 10.85Tribox Open Spring 2018: 13.19Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 13.33Tokyo Summer 2025: 12.39Kanto Autumn PM 2025: 11.16Tokyo Winter 2025: 11.70Ota Winter 2026: 10.99Otsu Biwako Winter 2026: 10.70Kanto Winter 2026: 11.45Tokyo Spring 2026: 10.94Otsu Biwako Spring 2026: 11.56Kanto Spring 2026: 10.50Hiroshima Spring 2026: 9.649.6421.1324 Jul 201030 May 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-20 3×3 blindfolded single — 166 people have one; it is 2.27 away.

Targets move as he improves.