[WR] Feliks Zemdegs 3x3 OH single 6.88

[PenguinsDontFly]

Guys, this is Rubik's Cubes.
Quit being so serious.

get out.

 

[cashis]

Guys, this is Rubik's Cubes.
Quit being so serious.

no, this is my livelihood.

 

[qqwref]

What, we can't care about our hobby? Why do you think we put so much time into solving the cube over and over?

 

[StachuK1992]

You can care, but talking about punishing some guy trying to help out by scrambling a bunch of cubes for an event to happen is silly.
Take a step back. Take some perspective.

I've thrown years of my life at this whole cubing thing, but I take it with perspective.
Don't take life so seriously. The trees may look strict and stable at the base, but where they can, they dance.

 

[AlexMaass]

Yeah the scrambler made a mistake, those happen, we're totally not going to burn him at the stake or anything like that.

 

[hubingjushi]

This was because the 1.89 at your competition did not follow regulations. The solve was completed in under 7 moves. For skewb, the scramble is required to be a minimum of seven moves for an optimal solution. For 3x3 solving, the solution has to be 13 moves or greater for an optimal solution.

This is why Akash Rupela's solve was allowed for example. But this one you linked, and Nathan Soria's one were not.

Sorry to say but he solve it RIGHT in 7 moves.

 

[WayneMigraine]

Illuminati confirmed.

 

[TDM]

I have a (maybe stupid) idea, why don't we have like this mini legorobots to scramble cubes? they never (or maybe 1/1000000) gonna make a mistake, the only downside is that it's gonna cost a bit of money :/

That, and they're a lot slower than people, except for the REALLY good ones.

 

[Barack Obama]

Secret service intelligence has informed that the optimal solution to the scramble was 1 move. However, I'm afraid I'm going to have to veto anyone that says this world record isn't legitimate.

 

[Laura O]

This can be compared to solving the cube in the competition. What if everyone would stop competing because they might get +2's or DNF's? We compete with the risk of getting these penalties if the rules aren't followed, scrambling shouldn't be any different from that

You compare apples to oranges.
When you get a +2 or a DNF that's just one individual result. It's just about this single attempt.
When you are a scrambler there are no results that could be changed. And changing any other results to DNF because you made a mistake when scrambling is like failing an exam because you smoked in the schoolyard.

I definitely agree when we talk about intentional misscrambles or scramblers who just don't care. Competitors should be banned for an amount of time (like it was done here). But I don't like how people are demanding a general punishment for misscrambles.

 

[G2013]

omg

Yesterday the OH NR of my country was broken (with a time of 12.11) at the Otoño Open 2015 (I was the judge! )

And this is the half...

 

[CubeCow]

What even!?!?! We just got a new oh wr!! Go feliks!

 

[Sajwo]

Should be approved

 

[Ninja Storm]

First off, congrats to Feliks for getting this and totally overshadowing my own sub10! haha

Second, I think that because the cube was in a legal position, with no intention by the scrambler to give Feliks an easier scramble, that this record should hold. In similar situations, the solve had been ruled legitimate.

With the discussion about needing to check scrambles, I think that people need to consider the fact that human error is real, and that people aren't intentionally try to make mistakes. While experienced cubes may be able to scramble and check better than someone who isn't experienced with competitions, often the best are competing in further rounds, which leaves newer cubers in charge of scrambling for a round.

I think that an official scramble checker would help a lot, where it would simply be one person's job to check each scramble, and not have to worry about scrambling it. It would introduce some redundancy into the system, but would also help catch a lot of errors.

 

[Jimmy Liu]

I think the result is legit, but I suggest faz give up the record.
There was also sq1 WR with wrong scramble, but he thought it was too fast at that time, so he give up the record.
6.88 is too much improvement from 8.27, so it cause the growth of OH event hugely

 

[Genius4Jesus]

It's too bad there was another unfortunate mis-scramble. But, if the scramble was still in a theoretically legal permutation, I think the record should stand.

 

[Owczar]

This is strange and incredible at once. 0 7.xx official solves, but 6.88. WTF. Feliks broke the record of 16.81%. This isn't normal

 

[newtonbase]

If this is declared legit it could stand for an awfully long time. But then I said that about the record last week.

 

[Username]

I think the result is legit, but I suggest faz give up the record.
There was also sq1 WR with wrong scramble, but he thought it was too fast at that time, so he give up the record.
6.88 is too much improvement from 8.27, so it cause the growth of OH event hugely

This also something that I haven't seen discussed yet. I can see where your thoughts are coming from, but would you do it yourself? I understand that Feliks has a big chance of breaking it soon enough if he decides to give it up, but I'm not sure it's the right thing to do, especially if the correct scramble would've had an easy X-cross too (like I think I read earlier in this thread)

 

[Eva]

I'm just curious, how long would it take for the WCA to draw a conclusion.
I know this can't be said precisely, but is it like a few days, a week or even more.