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Proposal: Add Gender Sorting on the WCA Rankings

Should SORT BY GENDER be added to the WCA database? (will NOT create new WR/CR/NR)


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Dene

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Rowan brought up some really interesting points about exactly how this would encourage more females to pursue cubing, and I really don't think it wouldn't be the same if there were an external link to iWCA.jp on the WCA site instead of actually having the filter implemented there. It'd be much more encouraging to see the rankings directly on the WCA site, specifically on the misc. page.

Of course it could always be implemented as a sort of experiment... But I still don't think the issue is female maintenance (vs. attrition) so much as female acquisition, in which case the list wouldn't help.
 

bran

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I'm pretty sure Feliks has gotten more girls into cubing than any female out there. So, it's not necessary that having a filter for female rankings and making them more publicly known would encourage females to get into cubing. Just my two cents on the topic, don't hate me :p
 

JKNK

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i personally dont care about gender ranking, but i think it may be good idea. I mean it may inspire females to get faster and contribute to the community. Without people like feliks or mats, i wouldn't be able to be as fast i am today. They inspired me to get faster. I think more females would join and get faster with rankings sorted by gender.
 

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The Github issue regarding this has been bumped which reminds me,

http://iwca.jp is defunct (called it, just saying) does anyone know of a place where you can look at WCA rankings by gender? Thanks in advance.
 

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Then someone would get a sex change and screw things up. FAZ: With a little nip/tuck, you could hold both world records...
The post says gender sorting, not sex sorting
I think we should be able to see the rankings of female cubers, but there shouldn't be multiple WR's based on gender since male cubers aren't inherently faster than female ones, it's just that there are MORE male cubers.
 

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I think we should be able to see the rankings of female cubers, but there shouldn't be multiple WR's based on gender since male cubers aren't inherently faster than female ones, it's just that there are MORE male cubers.
I mean, why do we recognize NR's? Where one lives has no bearing on their speed. Your nationality doesn't make you inherently better or worse than others, yet we still see them as valid records?
 
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Malkom

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I mean, why do we recognize NR's? Where one lives has no bearing on their speed. Your nationality doesn't make you inherently better or worse than others, yet we still see them as valid records?
The reason i see for NRs (and to some extent CRs) is that is shows who is most likely to win comps in that region. Another way of seeing it is that it also shows who is fastest in your local area, the cubers you meet IRL on a pretty regular basis.
This doesn't really work for huge countries like the US but works perfectly fine in smaller countries like most European countries.
 
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