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Osaka Rubik's Cube Competition Results

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From speedcubing.com:
Mitsuki Gunji won the Osaka Rubik's Cube contest 2007 with an average in the final of 14.27 seconds. Ryousuke Higo finished second (14.90) and Yohei Oka finished third (15.00).
World records: Takayuki Ookusa 5x5 1:51.37 (average).
Asian records: Takayuki Ookusa 5x5 1:45.71 (single), Masayuki Akimoto 3x3 blindfolded 1:54.13, Mitsuki Gunji Clock 9.41 (single), 11.04 (average), Yohei Oka Pyraminx 10.32 (average).

View all results here:
http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/result...php?i=Osaka2007
 

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Looks back to 1982 WC, the WR solve was 22.xx seconds. Look at the WR just less than 2 years ago, it was 11.13. The WR avg is now like 11.75 or around there. You never know what you expect. You can avg. sub-15 and not even place 1st or 2nd sometimes. Lots of competition.
 

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Don't forget that the WR solve was done on a "store-bought" cube. Competitors couldn't use their own cubes, but they were given new cubes that hadn't been broken in yet. The best of the best were averaging 17/18 seconds back then with algorithms that had mostly been found by hand and that had to be shared without the internet!

http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/result...history=History gives a good overview which basically breaks down to this
15-14-13-12: 4 times by Shotaro Makisumi
11-11-10-10: 4 different people

To me, this means cubing has become much more competitive and we are getting closer to the limits
 
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