Collecting Data: Cubes used by top official competitors

Lucas Garron

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After seeing enough people baselessly claiming that so-and-so-cube is worthless, I'd like to see if I can collect enough information about the cubes used to set the 3x3x3 OPRs up to 10.00 single and 12.00 avg, as a collaboration on this forum.

So that anyone can parse this page to collect the data, I suggest putting the actual data on a single line with the solve #, a colon, and the data. For example, my 10.00 from SF09:

S26: Cube4you old Type A (Cubesmith untextured tiles, CRC Heavy-Duty Silicone)

Since the data may change, I will freeze it at 20090627:
Code:
S1	Erik Akkersdijk	7.08	Netherlands	Czech Open 2008	 
S2	Kittikorn Tangsucharitthum	8.25	Thailand	Thailand Open 2009	 
S3	Edouard Chambon	8.66	France	Euro 2008	 
S4	Yu Nakajima	8.72	Japan	Kashiwa Open 2008	 
S5	Durben Joun Virtucio	8.78	Philippines	Cebu Open 2009	 
S6	Syuhei Omura	8.84	Japan	JRCA Kanto Summer 2009	 
S7	Milán Baticz	8.86	Hungary	Swiss Open 2009	 
S8	Rowe Hessler	8.91	USA	Newark Open 2008	 
S9	Yumu Tabuchi	9.19	Japan	Osaka Open 2009	 
S10	Tomasz Zolnowski	9.21	Poland	Polish Open 2008	 
S11	Adam Polkowski	9.25	Poland	Marina Gdansk Open 2008	 
S12	Harris Chan	9.44	Canada	canadianCubing Classic 2008	 
S13 	Phil Thomas	9.44	USA	Lexington Fall Open 2008	 
S14	Eric Limeback	9.55	Canada	Cincinnati Spring Open 2008	 
S15 	Ron van Bruchem	9.55	Netherlands	Netherlands 2007	 
S16	Stefan Pochmann	9.56	Germany	Aachen Open 2009	 
S17	Jean Pons	9.60	France	Czech Open 2008	 
S18	Yohei Oka	9.68	Japan	Osaka Open 2009	 
S19	Benjamin Sintes	9.72	France	Nantes Open 2008	 
S20	Phillip Espinoza	9.73	USA	Discovery Science Center 2009	 
S21	Mitsuki Gunji	9.75	Japan	Kawasaki Open 2008	 
S22	Kouetsu Ando	9.83	Japan	Ibaraki 2007	 
S23	Thibaut Jacquinot	9.86	France	Spanish Open 2007	 
S24	Jimmy Coll	9.97	Belgium	Nantes Open 2009	 
S25	Grzegorz Luczyna	10.00	Poland	Marina Gdansk Open 2008	 
S26 	Lucas Garron	10.00	Germany	San Francisco Open 2009	

A1	Tomasz Zolnowski	10.63	Poland	Warsaw Open 2009	10.88   10.19   10.81   9.43   DNF
A2	Yumu Tabuchi	10.83	Japan	Osaka Open 2009	9.30   9.19   11.03   13.11   12.16
A3	Erik Akkersdijk	11.11	Netherlands	Benelux Open 2009	9.71   10.25   12.71   14.58   10.38
A4	Yu Nakajima	11.28	Japan	Kashiwa Open 2008	11.36   10.16   10.65   13.13   11.83
A5	Andy Tsao	11.42	USA	Berkeley Fall 2008	10.47   11.41   14.15   11.18   11.66
A6	Edouard Chambon	11.48	France	Murcia Open 2008	13.03   9.18   12.44   12.33   9.66
A7 	Harris Chan	11.48	Canada	Toronto Open Winter 2009	11.16   13.13   11.09   10.63   12.19
A8 	Takumi Yoshida	11.48	Japan	JRCA Kanto Summer 2009	10.93   12.55   10.09   10.97   14.58
A9	Keisuke Hiraya	11.68	Japan	Japan Open 2008	11.75   11.63   11.66   15.55   10.18
A10	Rowe Hessler	11.70	USA	Cumberland Valley Open 2009	10.71   11.56   12.83   13.00   10.50
A11	Adam Polkowski	11.72	Poland	Warsaw Open 2009	13.16   12.41   11.19   11.55   10.30
A12 	Milán Baticz	11.72	Hungary	Swiss Open 2009	11.46   11.30   12.41   12.80   8.86
A13	Che-Ting Chu	11.76	Taiwan	Taiwan Spring Open 2009	12.02   13.19   11.75   11.50   11.19
A14 	Yu Jeong-Min	11.76	Korea	KCRC 2007	11.66   12.02   13.09   11.09   11.59
A15	Eric Limeback	11.80	Canada	Motor City Open 2009	10.55   12.63   11.15   11.86   12.40
A16	Mitsuki Gunji	11.82	Japan	Kashiwa Open 2008	11.78   12.75   11.25   11.44   12.25
A17	Mats Valk	11.85	Netherlands	German Open 2009	11.21   14.93   11.06   12.52   11.81
A18	Syuhei Omura	11.88	Japan	JRCA Kanto Summer 2009	11.91   14.13   8.84   10.61   13.11
A19	Andrew Kang	11.89	USA	US Nationals and Open 2008	11.88   13.56   12.65   10.68   11.13
A20	Jason Baum	11.97	USA	Da Vinci Science Center 2008	12.25   13.21   11.05   10.84   12.61
A21	Jean Pons	11.99	France	Czech Open 2008	12.73   11.17   12.30   12.50   11.18

I hope that a lot of you will be interested in this, and help by digging up what you can remember.
(Also, I think a lot of appreciate would like citations for verifiability, where possible.)
 
S1: Rubik's.com DIY core, 9spuzzles DIY B cubies (stickers: normal cubesmith stickers lube: Griffon HR260 silicone spray)
A3: Rubik's.com DIY core, 9spuzzles DIY B cubies (stickers: normal cubesmith stickers with bright green Lube: Griffon HR260 silicone spray)
 
A1: Type F

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJdGN0Opuvc

A2: Rubik's DIY

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYL2Gmpn0sA

A4: Centers, corners, inner cross core, and screws are Rubik.com's DIY parts.
Edges and center's caps are Mega-House's Speed cube kit.
(The inner legs size are little different)
Holed edge's and corner's legs to light weight, make hollows in centers to hook the center caps.
Sanded the center's reverse side's pointed edges to roughly rotation.
Used stainless steel washers under the springs for smoothly rotation.
Of course, brush up the leg's bumps.

Source: http://www.twistypuzzles.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=12012

I think we'll probably have to email a few people to ask them to email the top competitors to ask them to tell us which cube they used. e.g. for Kouetsu Ando.
 
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