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Yuri Kobayashi (小林夕莉)

3×3 · top 7.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2023 · 2023KOBA04

Yuri Kobayashi (小林夕莉) has been competing for 3 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.05, set at Tokyo Winter 2025, puts her in the top 7.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 331st in Japan. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since July 2023, she has put 55 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 13.00 in July 2023 to 10.05, a 23% improvement. Yuri has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.6% of 284,439 all-time
10.05
signature single · Tokyo Winter 2025
55
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×310.0511.30
top 7.6%331 / 3,329
4×441.7145.67
top 14.2%147 / 667
2×24.365.07
top 31.1%393 / 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

Ayase Summer 2023: 13.00Shonan AM 2024: 11.24Tokyo Open AM Winter 2025: 11.32Ota Autumn 2025: 10.72Tokyo Winter 2025: 10.05Kanto Winter 2026: 11.5210.0513.0017 Jul 202321 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.05 away.
  • A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 1.71 away.

Targets move as she improves.