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Miro Tapaninen

3×3 · top 4.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2019 · 2019TAPA01

Miro Tapaninen has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.85, set at Level Up Uusimaa 2022, puts him in the top 4.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 66th in Finland. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since October 2019, he has put 177 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 84% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.41 in October 2019 to 8.85, a 59% improvement. Miro has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.5% of 284,439 all-time
8.85
signature single · Level Up Uusimaa 2022
177
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 84% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFinland
3×38.8510.57
top 4.5%66 / 875
Skewb4.106.65
top 11.6%78 / 405
2×22.903.52
top 13.1%173 / 671
3×3 one-handed17.7123.74
top 14.3%62 / 314
4×459.261:03.80
top 35.7%157 / 388
Square-129.41
early days — 2 solves91 / 155

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

Pönde Open 2019: 21.41Finnish Championship 2019: 14.90Tapiola Winter Open 2019: 15.50Elisa Kulma Open 2020: 15.11Helsinki Open 2020: 13.28Finnish Championship 2021: 9.99Level Up Uusimaa 2022: 8.858.8521.414 Oct 201925 Nov 2022

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 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.85 away.
  • A sub-4 Skewb single — 7,977 people have one; it is 0.10 away.

Targets move as he improves.