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Mahiro Tanaka (田中万尋)

3×3 blindfolded · top 10.7% of 12,178 all-time · competing since April 2022 · 2022TANA03

Mahiro Tanaka (田中万尋) has been competing for 4 years. Her best event is the 3×3 blindfolded: a personal-best single of 52.48, set at Tokai Open 2023, puts her in the top 10.7% of the 12,178 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 52nd in Japan. Across 22 competitions since April 2022, she has put 171 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 78% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 20.65 in April 2022 to 13.57, a 34% improvement. Mahiro has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 blindfolded
best event — top 10.7% of 12,178 all-time
52.48
signature single · Tokai Open 2023
171
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 78% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×3 blindfolded52.481:36.79
top 10.7%52 / 282
Pyraminx5.657.35
top 17.4%196 / 688
3×313.5715.23
top 19.5%823 / 3,329
Clock13.7029.00
top 42.6%154 / 263
4×41:08.931:20.79
top 45.8%426 / 667
2×28.1813.06
top 68.9%779 / 1,021
3×3 Multi-Blind6 of 10 cubes · 48:17
early days — 1 solve106 / 128
3×3 one-handed53.311:03.07
top 79.6%475 / 529
Skewb15.8423.28
top 80.8%320 / 338
Square-11:15.78
early days — 1 solve236 / 245

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

Minatomirai 2022: 20.65Yoga Summer A 2022: 17.16Ayase Autumn A 2022: 14.86Hiroshima Spring 2023: 17.13Hiroshima Winter 2024: 14.30Shonan AM 2024: 14.36Tokyo Spring AM 2025: 15.42Kanto Spring 2025: 15.45Tokyo Summer 2025: 14.43Tokai Summer 2025: 15.76Kanto Summer AM 2025: 15.11Kanto Autumn AM 2025: 13.57Tokyo Winter 2025: 14.52Kanto Winter 2026: 17.77Tokyo Spring 2026: 14.1413.5720.6529 Apr 20225 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-50 3×3 blindfolded single — 1,207 people have one; it is 2.48 away.
  • A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.65 away.

Targets move as she improves.