People · Japan
Yuta Imai (今井悠太)
3×3 · top 28.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2025 · 2025IMAI01
Yuta Imai (今井悠太) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 16.32, set at Tokyo Winter 2025, puts him in the top 28.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,152nd in Japan. Across 9 competitions since April 2025, he has put 81 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 97% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 3 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.20 in April 2025 to 16.32, a 33% improvement. Yuta has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Japan | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 16.32 | 19.02 | top 28.8% | 1,152 / 3,329 | |
| 2×2 | 5.12 | 6.37 | top 40.8% | 506 / 1,021 | |
| Pyraminx | 9.61 | 11.66 | top 49.9% | 445 / 688 | |
| 4×4 | 1:28.60 | 1:32.11 | top 62.6% | 532 / 667 |
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
- 7 Dec 2025First sub-20 3×3: 16.32 at Tokyo Winter 2025.
- 20 Apr 2025First competition: Tokyo Spring AM 2025. A 24.20 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Kanto Spring 2026 · 17 May 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Tokyo Spring 2026 · 5 Apr 2026
- Kanto Winter 2026 · 21 Feb 2026
- Ota Winter 2026 · 25 Jan 2026
- Tokyo Winter 2025 · 7 Dec 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Kanto Autumn AM 2025 · 11 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Kanto Summer AM 2025 · 30 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Kanto Spring 2025 · 31 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Tokyo Spring AM 2025 · 20 Apr 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.
- Takumi Kato (加藤匠) — met in 16 rounds, never finished ahead
- Takuma Shirahase (白波瀬拓磨) — met in 15 rounds, finished ahead once
- Kantaro Sakamoto (坂本貫太郎) — met in 15 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 1.32 away.
- A sub-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.12 away.
Targets move as he improves.