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Masaaki Tanaka (田中正晃)

3×3 · top 17.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2016 · 2016TANA01

Masaaki Tanaka (田中正晃) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.94, set at Kansai Summer 2019, puts him in the top 17.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 728th in Japan. Across 10 competitions since April 2016, he has put 212 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 20% around a typical one; 99% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.06 in April 2016 to 12.94, a 39% improvement. Masaaki has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 17.2% of 284,439 all-time
12.94
signature single · Kansai Summer 2019
212
official solves on the record
20%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 99% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×312.9416.04
top 17.2%728 / 3,329
Clock10.2813.13
top 26.5%96 / 263
4×453.641:05.17
top 29.1%290 / 667
Pyraminx7.199.77
top 29.4%305 / 688
2×24.256.16
top 29.7%372 / 1,021
Square-121.8025.28
top 32.0%111 / 245
3×3 one-handed26.3635.28
top 37.8%298 / 529
Skewb7.6512.46
top 38.7%189 / 338
3×3 blindfolded2:21.34
early days — 2 solves159 / 282
5×52:26.952:46.83
top 64.4%326 / 420
Megaminx2:37.253:02.54
top 64.8%268 / 313
6×64:46.645:04.59
early days — 3 solves179 / 209
3×3 Fewest Moves52 moves
early days — 2 solves182 / 201

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

Cherry Blossom Viewing 2016: 21.06JRCA Kansai Spring 2016: 24.21Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2016: 18.47Japan Open 2016: 16.87Kyushu Open 2016: 18.54Kansai Open 2017: 15.18Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2017: 16.13Japan Open 2017: 17.65Kansai Summer 2019: 12.94Kanazawa Challenge Spring PM 2023: 13.8612.9424.219 Apr 201627 May 2023

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.94 away.
  • A sub-10 Clock single — 8,040 people have one; it is 0.28 away.

Targets move as he improves.