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I've made a few updates, the most significant being that it can now pull official results for competitions which means that you can now view Kinch rankings for all competitions that have official results posted, not just those that use WCA Live. For example, World Champs 2015. Thanks everyone...

Introducing https://comp-kinch.sylvermyst.com It's a small web app that displays KinchRanks for individual competitions. This idea has been in the making for a few years, but I finally had the energy to follow through with it. I'm not the first person to create something like this, and there...

Yes, ZZ technically reduces the cube to a <R,U,L> after the first step. Does that mean you solve it using RUL? HELL NO! Ask any top OH solver whether they prefer RUF or RU. I guarantee most of them are going to say RU. The first of ZZ step is admittedly awkward, but it's only 6-8 moves and not...

It's not really about the number of competitors in the round, but has more to do with whether there are enough competent scramblers who are not competing in that round. This is especially a problem with Square-1, because the notation is different to any other puzzle and it can be quite difficult...

The best thing to do if you feel like you're forgetting things is to keep practicing. Don't learn full OLL or PLL yet. It's a bad idea to try learning something new when you're not yet comfortable with something else. If you're struggling to solidify intuitive F2L cases, do them slowly, look...

Depends what you mean by "pretty good" and what you're comparing them to. You'll notice I didn't say the algs were bad, I said they didn't flow well. People complain about N perms. There are about 30 TTLL cases that have the best algs are on a par with or slightly longer than N perms and flow...

It's about 4 years since I learned TSLE, and I don't use it any more, but I think the approach I used made it one of the easiest alg sets I've learned. Here's a spreadsheet with my algs. I started making notes on most of them, but unfortunately stopped adding my notes to the spreadsheet halfway...

x2 // Inspection R' B' L (U' D) F' D2 R' // EOCross L U' L' U' R U R' // Pair U L U L' U2 L U2 L2' U L // Left block R' U R U' R' U' R // F2L U' R U' R' U2 R U R' U2 R U R' U R U' R' U' // ZBLL 49 HTM Next: B' U2 B L2 F U2 R2 B U2 R2 F2 D' L' D' L R' U F L' D2 U'

I know this reply may be a bit late, but depending where you are in South Africa, you may be able to find a Hamleys Toy Store that stocks a limited range of cubes. I live in Gauteng, and I know the one in Sandton does, and the Menlyn one did last time I was there. I don't know about the Cape...

I agree. I generally do go for one of the cross edges unless there's an obvious easy case. It's easier for lookahead to have some idea what you're looking for before you see it. I usually just dive into chain pairing with whatever edge is in uFR, and then once the first two edges are paired...

Technically, all of them should be aware of it. The problem is that even fewer competitors seem to be aware of this regulation: 2t) Each competitor must be familiar with and understand the WCA Regulations before the competition. It's probably worth pointing out other regulations that are...

I think this mostly works, but the one big thing I disagree on is that I feel that cubes like the Cong's Design Meiying, the first Gans 356, and the Moyu Tanglong had brand new revolutionary features such as corners squared of with wings, and contoured centres that slide under the corners that...

Any timer that let's you copy your time out will work. You can then copy them into any software to plot graphs. I used to do that, but now I have an automated system which extracts the times directly from Prisma on my computer and PlusTimer on my phone, links directly to the WCA database and...

Can you give an example? I'm familiar with those terms as logical fallacies but I don't think I've seen them used in the context of puzzles. Ok, I tested out my Google before posting, and I found a post where someone refers to what some call "parity" involving a twisted single-coloured corner...

Depends. This is impossible to calculate since its impossible to know what the underlying distribution of your solves are. If you are very consistent then the chances of this happening are really high. If you are so consistent that you usually get the same times every solve, then the chances of...

My guess is, depending on condition, $4 or $5.

It doesn't have to be argued. It's written clearly in the guidelines: A6e+) CLARIFICATION If the puzzle falls into the lap of the competitor after stopping the timer, this is considered touching the puzzle. The penalty for the cube touching the timer isn't in the regulations any more, anyway...

It sounds like you already have an account (which is very likely if you've got an ID - you likely used the account to register for your first competition), but the WCA ID doesn't get linked automatically. Try signing in with your email address instead of the WCA ID. Once you've signed in, you'll...

All of the links work for me