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Yuta Okada (岡田雄太)

3×3 · top 1.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2009 · 2009OKAD01

Yuta Okada (岡田雄太) has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.33, set at Kansai Summer 2018, puts him in the top 1.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 75th in Japan. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 53 competitions since August 2009, he has put 901 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 75% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.33 in August 2009 to 7.33, a 69% improvement. Yuta has entered 53 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.7% of 284,439 all-time
7.33
signature single · Kansai Summer 2018
901
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 75% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×37.3311.76
top 1.7%75 / 3,329
3×3 blindfolded29.471:03.90
top 4.0%19 / 282
3×3 one-handed14.3518.52
top 6.8%68 / 529
2×22.554.63
top 9.4%131 / 1,021
Megaminx1:15.401:19.27
top 18.9%124 / 313
4×448.6058.81
top 22.9%233 / 667
3×3 Multi-Blind4 of 4 cubes · 17:59—
top 40.8%70 / 128
Skewb8.1114.55
top 42.1%200 / 338
Clock13.6916.12
top 42.6%153 / 263
3×3 Fewest Moves39 moves—
top 44.7%118 / 201
Pyraminx9.3911.59
top 48.1%430 / 688
5×51:58.592:23.73
top 48.4%260 / 420

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

Japan Open 2009: 23.33Kawasaki Open 2010: 15.1130th Anniversary MegaHouse Cup 2010: 17.31UT Open 2010: 12.40UT Open 2011: 13.13Kawasaki Open 2012: 12.71Kanto Open 2012: 12.59Japan Open 2012: 13.03Japan Contest 2012: 11.34Rabbit And Turtle 2013: 10.21Kansai Open 2013: 9.40Japan Contest Spring 2013: 12.38Kawasaki Open 2013: 12.38Japan Open 2013: 10.75Tachikawa 3x3 Fest 2013: 11.34Kawasaki Autumn 2013: 13.46UT Open 2013: 11.94Kanto Open 2014: 11.19Japan Contest Spring 2014: 9.96Kawasaki Spring 2014: 10.80Japan Contest Autumn 2014: 12.08Asian Championship 2014: 10.81UT Open 2014: 10.44Tachikawa 3x3 Fest 2014: 11.19Japan Contest Spring 2015: 10.97Japan Open 2015: 11.38Kawasaki Spring 2016: 11.50Japan Open 2016: 8.55Kyushu Open 2016: 9.89Tribox Open Winter 2017: 11.69Circles Open Spring 2017: 12.56Meguro 2017: 8.83Kansai Summer 2017: 11.96Suginami Open 2017: 11.56Japan Open 2017: 11.40Kyushu Open 2017: 9.82Kansai Summer 2018: 7.33WCA Asian Championship 2018: 13.58Tokyo Pyraminx Returns 2018: 12.74Saitama 2018: 11.52Japan Championship 2018: 10.67JRCA Kansai Winter 2019: 11.19Ayase 2019: 9.89Tribox Open Spring 2019: 12.54Japan Championship 2019: 11.19Hiroshima Open 2019: 11.35Minatomirai 2022: 12.377.3323.331 Aug 200929 Apr 2022

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.33 away.
  • A sub-25 3×3 blindfolded single — 355 people have one; it is 4.47 away.

Targets move as he improves.