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Yusei Shimada (島田悠晟)
2×2 · top 5.0% of 189,179 all-time · competing since December 2025 · 2025SHIM07
Yusei Shimada (島田悠晟) has been competing for 10 months. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.04, set at Shimonoseki 2025, puts him in the top 5.0% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 61st in Japan. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 3 competitions since December 2025, he has put 25 official solves on the record across three events. Yusei has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Japan | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 2.04 | 4.73 | top 5.0% | 61 / 1,026 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.50 | 7.18 | top 10.2% | 121 / 691 | |
| 3×3 | 10.95 | 11.79 | top 10.4% | 456 / 3,360 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 28 Dec 2025First competition: Shimonoseki 2025. A 11.91 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Shimonoseki Summer 2026 · 9 Aug 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Hiroshima Spring 2026 · 30 May 2026
- Shimonoseki 2025 · 28 Dec 2025
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.
- Takayuki Ookusa (大艸尊之) — met in 5 rounds, finished ahead once
- Takuma Shirahase (白波瀬拓磨) — met in 4 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
- Bhanu Victor DiCara — met in 4 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
Next targets
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.04 away.
- A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 10,050 people have one; it is 0.50 away.
Targets move as he improves.