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Hana Nakano

3×3 · top 1.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2009 · 2009DAVI01

Hana Nakano has been competing for 17 years. Their best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.93, set at Arkansolve Fall 2025, puts them in the top 1.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 765th in the United States. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 61 competitions since May 2009, they have put 1,826 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, their 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 65% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Their 3×3 best has come down from 38.84 in May 2009 to 6.93, an 82% improvement. Hana has entered 61 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.3% of 284,439 all-time
6.93
signature single · Arkansolve Fall 2025
1,826
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 65% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.938.62
top 1.3%765 / 59,724
2×21.382.75
top 1.6%657 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed10.8615.88
top 1.7%278 / 15,683
4×428.2634.94
top 1.9%316 / 19,072
6×61:30.671:45.52
top 2.1%79 / 4,196
5×553.0159.29
top 2.7%211 / 9,401
7×72:26.202:33.28
top 3.2%84 / 3,184
3×3 blindfolded40.8453.60
top 7.0%139 / 2,092
Megaminx1:03.461:10.38
top 11.8%795 / 7,841
Square-113.7524.57
top 13.6%931 / 6,743
Skewb5.065.87
top 18.6%2,963 / 18,907
Pyraminx8.5611.35
top 41.0%11,763 / 28,708
5×5 blindfolded14:57.00—
early days — 1 solve88 / 218
3×3 Multi-Blind4 of 5 cubes · 20:22—
early days — 3 solves403 / 731
Clock18.8720.82
top 61.4%5,181 / 8,927

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

San Diego Open 2009: 38.84Bayview Hills Open 2010: 15.93Moose Lodge 2010: 16.90San Diego Open 2010: 14.93Eagle Peak - San Diego Open 2012: 14.05Caltech Fall Open 2012: 16.02Antelope Valley Winter 2013: 12.19Caltech Winter Open 2013: 15.28World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 13.77Antelope Valley Fall 2013: 13.94Slow N Steady Fall 2016: 12.53TJHSST Fall 2016: 12.04ODU Big Blue Winter 2016: 11.69ODU Big Blue Spring 2017: 10.97Circle City Supercharged 2022: 11.40Cozy Cubing Poway 2023: 10.99Oak Valley Winter A 2023: 9.25Marshall Cubing Spring 2023: 10.35A Bruin Cube Day Spring 2023: 9.42CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 9.77Irvine Fall 2023: 9.63UCSD Extravaganza 2023: 8.16Poway Cubing Winter 2024: 7.86Triton Tricubealon 2024: 9.02Catalina Cube Mixer 2024: 7.89Nub Open Yucaipa 2024: 9.33San Diego Big Cub 2024: 7.93Temecula Valley Spring 2024: 8.75CubingUSA Western Championship 2024: 8.47Super Duper San Diego 2024: 8.27Temecula Valley Fall 2024: 7.95UCSD Fall 2024: 7.53Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 9.07Tooele Open A 2025: 8.29Wolverine Weekdays 3 Orem 2025: 8.65Boise One-Handed Blitz 2025: 8.18Reno Summer 2025: 7.84UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025: 8.09West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2025: 8.34Cornhusker Cubing Classic 2025: 8.74Grand Forks 2025: 8.50Cubetcha MN 2025: 7.30KCKC 8 Cubing for Cake 2025: 7.46NxNebraska 2025: 7.53Arkansolve Fall 2025: 6.93LA Unorthodox Twistgiving 2025: 7.56Texas Championship 2025: 9.18Tulsa Holiday Cube-Off 2025: 7.13Arizona Championship 2026: 8.78Davis Winter 2026: 8.12UCLA Spring 2026: 8.03UCSD March B 2026: 9.42Temecula Valley Spring 2026: 8.09Katano Spring 2026: 9.31UCSD TritoNxN 2026: 10.056.9338.8423 May 20094 Apr 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 their.

  • Shane Grogan — met in 183 rounds, finished ahead 55 times
  • Max Park — met in 150 rounds, finished ahead twice
  • Michael Young — met in 141 rounds, finished ahead 85 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.93 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.38 away.

Targets move as they improves.