Prayers for sale $1 yayay!

[macky]

For $1, I will pray that you or any competitor of your choosing will get easy permutations in one round (5 solves) of 3x3 speedsolve!
http://cubefreak.net/speed/prayer.html

I'm only half joking. With 16 finalists and probably >30 sub-13 cubers at worlds this fall, even some of the best cubers will need a bit of luck to make the final. And if people actually buy this, it'll help pay for my plane ticket...and it would be hilarious.

I'm only accepting Paypal right now, but if enough people post about paying with a credit card, I can also arrange that.
[edit: I can now also accept credit card payments, though I prefer Paypal.]

Yay for summer and doing random things.

Best,
macky

[xXdaveXsuperstarXx]

What's the point of this?

[Rama]

[Zaxef]

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(too short!)

[xXdaveXsuperstarXx]

Maybe if you sold 100 prayers you might be able to buy a cracker from the flight attendant.

[macky]

But of course I'm not expecting to make much out of this! I guess I need to make it explicit: I want to know what others think about the cluttering of top cubers and what effect that has on competitions, especially one like Worlds, because of the inherently probabilistic nature of speedcubing.

[Paul Wagner]

For $1, I will pray that you or any competitor of your choosing will get easy permutations in one round (5 solves) of 3x3 speedsolve!
http://cubefreak.net/speed/prayer.html

I'm only half joking. With 16 finalists and probably >30 sub-13 cubers at worlds this fall, even some of the best cubers will need a bit of luck to make the final. And if people actually buy this, it'll help pay for my plane ticket...and it would be hilarious.

I'm only accepting Paypal right now, but if enough people post about paying with a credit card, I can also arrange that.

Yay for summer and doing random things.

Best,
macky

Cubing indulgences?

[Mike Hughey]

Originally Posted by macky

For $1, I will pray that you or any competitor of your choosing will get easy permutations in one round (5 solves) of 3x3 speedsolve! http://cubefreak.net/speed/prayer.html I'm only half joking. With 16 finalists and probably >30 sub-13 cubers at worlds this fall, even some of the best cubers will need a bit of luck to make the final. And if people actually buy this, it'll help pay for my plane ticket...and it would be hilarious. I'm only accepting Paypal right now, but if enough people post about paying with a credit card, I can also arrange that. Yay for summer and doing random things. Best, macky

Cubing indulgences?

No, no, you obviously don't understand your doctrine. Indulgences would get you out of cubing purgatory. If you received a plenary cubing indulgence and then died immediately, you would immediately enter blissful cubing eternity with no parity ever and perpetual LL skips, solving just like Frank Morris. If you received only a partial cubing indulgence, the amount of time your parity-suffering would last would be reduced, so you'd have fewer frustrating solves and lockups before reaching cubing heaven.

Macky's offer is just sale of prayers; not in the same league at all. There are no guarantees for any kind of results from prayers, unlike with indulgences. If Macky were selling indulgences, they'd be worth much more than $1.

But I wonder if Macky has the authority from Frank to grant indulgences?

[blah]

But of course I'm not expecting to make much out of this! I guess I need to make it explicit: I want to know what others think about the cluttering of top cubers and what effect that has on competitions, especially one like Worlds, because of the inherently probabilistic nature of speedcubing.

Still at that since WC07? Strongly and fully agree with your thoughts on the Yahoo! forum

[Swordsman Kirby]

with no parity ever and perpetual LL skips, solving just like Frank Morris.

Frank Morris gets perpetual F3L skips, so it's not solving like him. :P