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Yuto Yamada (山田悠人)
3×3 · top 4.3% of 288,433 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024YAMA03
Yuto Yamada (山田悠人) has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.75, set at Japan Championship 2026, puts him in the top 4.3% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 185th in Japan. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since March 2024, he has put 88 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.35 in March 2024 to 8.75, a 64% improvement. Yuto 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 | 8.75 | 9.62 | top 4.3% | 185 / 3,360 | |
| 4×4 | 43.22 | 48.04 | top 16.1% | 169 / 679 | |
| 2×2 | 3.16 | 3.89 | top 16.2% | 212 / 1,026 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 20.46 | 25.98 | top 21.8% | 183 / 539 | |
| Square-1 | 22.41 | 36.22 | top 33.4% | 117 / 251 | |
| 5×5 | 1:47.39 | 1:53.56 | top 40.9% | 229 / 426 |
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
- 27 Jul 2025First sub-10 3×3: 9.71 at Tokai Summer 2025.
- 12 Apr 2025First sub-20 3×3: 12.84 at Tokai Spring 2025.
- 12 Apr 2025First sub-15 3×3: 12.84 at Tokai Spring 2025.
- 31 Mar 2024First competition: Tokai Challenge Alpha 2024. A 24.35 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Tokai Autumn 2026 · 11 Oct 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Japan Championship 2026 · 18 Jul 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Katano Spring 2026 · 21 Mar 2026
- Otsu Biwako Winter 2026 · 1 Feb 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Tokyo Winter 2025 · 7 Dec 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Tokai Summer 2025 · 27 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Tokai Spring 2025 · 12 Apr 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Tokai Open AM 2024 · 15 Sep 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Tokai Challenge Alpha 2024 · 31 Mar 2024
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 17 rounds, never finished ahead
- Kantaro Sakamoto (坂本貫太郎) — met in 17 rounds, never finished ahead
- Takayuki Tanaka (田中隆喜) — met in 15 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.75 away.
- A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,370 people have one; it is 3.22 away.
Targets move as he improves.