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Mikel Manterola Zarraga

3×3 one-handed · top 0.38% of 73,695 all-time · competing since February 2024 · 2024ZARR01

Mikel Manterola Zarraga has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 8.68, set at Jesuitinas Txantrea Open 2026, puts him in the top 0.38% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2nd in Spain. Until May 2015, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 31 competitions since February 2024, he has put 1,202 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 72% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.06 in February 2024 to 6.55, a 57% improvement. Mikel has entered 31 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.38% of 73,695 all-time
8.68
signature single · Jesuitinas Txantrea Open 2026
1,202
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 72% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSpain
3×3 one-handed8.6811.09
top 0.38%2 / 1,315
3×36.557.84
top 0.9%40 / 5,141
4×430.1234.28
top 2.9%41 / 1,762
2×21.762.91
top 3.4%137 / 3,845
5×555.591:04.07
top 3.6%14 / 863
Megaminx53.6857.51
top 6.8%44 / 874
6×61:50.741:58.15
top 7.4%15 / 316
7×72:49.973:07.42
top 7.9%12 / 260
Skewb4.155.02
top 11.9%310 / 1,685
Clock7.559.28
top 13.1%113 / 876
Square-128.7937.56
top 47.1%251 / 604

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

Amore Open 2024: 15.06Bayonne Atoutcubes Open 2024: 12.22Urnieta Open 2024: 12.10Warm Up Portugalete 2024: 11.38Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 11.76Bilbao Open 2024: 10.23Basauri Open 2024: 9.72Spanish Championship 2024: 8.68Jesuitinas Txantrea Open 2025: 8.24Amore Amorebieta Open 2025: 8.35Iruña Open 2025: 9.46Urnieta Open 2025: 8.24Estella-Lizarra Open 2025: 8.52Arroios Summer 2025: 7.14Portugalete Open 2025: 6.93Bilbao Open 2025: 7.55Gan Open 2025: 7.25Basauri Open 2025: 7.24Spanish Championship 2025: 6.98Esprit Cube Anglet: PR Noël 2025: 7.71Amore Amorebieta Open 2026: 7.51Iruña Open 2026: 6.74Urnieta Open 2026: 7.95Jesuitinas Txantrea Open 2026: 6.77Bayonne Atoutcubes Open 2026: 6.95X-Madrid Open 2026: 7.15Izarraizpe Open 2026: 6.55Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 7.37Bilbao Goes Dark - Eclipse Day 2026: 7.16Aste Nagusia Bilbao Open 2026: 7.556.5515.0617 Feb 202424 Aug 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 0.68 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.55 away.

Targets move as he improves.