[WR] Feliks Zemdegs 4.73 3x3 single

[Matt11111]

4.73.... Feliks... DOES NOT COMPUTE... What is cubing anymore?

 

[Tyler Comfy Hat]

*Record Scratch*
*Freeze Frame*

*Slowly zooms in on Mats*

"Yup. That's me. You're probably wondering how I got myself in this crazy situation."

*Baba O'Riley starts playing*
"It all started years ago..."

 

[kbrune]

Wow pretty awesome! A bonus of coolness that he broke the record while sitting next to Mats! No disrestpect to Mats intended. I like both of those guys.

Why isn't the WCA starting to input records with 3 decimal points yet? It's becoming more and more relevant as the records become closer to plateau. If this solve had been 0.003 slower it would be a tie on the records page!!

 

[ozie]

He also had 7.04, 7.39 and 6.97 averages and two additional sub 6 singles. Sooooo common (for him) that nobody cares anymore.
What is left to do? Get the OH avg WR back, and then there's the 4x4 avg and the 6x6 single...

Does this mean the end of the "Friday Fours"?

 

[Dash Lambda]

This means the two most recent WR singles were made on magnetic cubes.
Not sure how much of a correlation that is, but it'll certainly add to their popularity.

 

[kbrune]

Which competition was this at? I cant seem to find it on the WCA site.

 

[Genius4Jesus]

Congrats Feliks!!! Too bad Mats lost his record so soon, but an incredible solve nonetheless.

 

[turtwig]

Which competition was this at? I cant seem to find it on the WCA site.

POPS Open 2016, it hasn't be put on the WCA site yet, but it's on cubecomps.

 

[kbrune]

Just noticed that Mats and Feliks will be competing head to head again on the 17th at the Sydney Championships.
Looking forward to some more action!

 

[joshsailscga]

Pretty great reaction, I always figured if/when he took 3x3 single back there would be a little extra celebration on his part for obvious reasons

Edit: And congrats to Mats for another sub-7 average! Honestly that's more impressive than a 4 single but will be way under-hyped.

Edit2: Also podium WR by a huge amount, 22.04 vs previous best of 22.91.

 

[obelisk477]

Does this mean the end of the "Friday Fours"?

inb4 Thursday threes

 

[CornerCutter]

Wow!! Congrats Feliks!

If you look closely at the video his cube gets stuck 2/3 of the way through.

What cube was he using?

 

[AlexMaass]

Wow!! Congrats Feliks!

What cube was he using?

Gans 356 Air Magnetic Prototype

 

[CornerCutter]

Gans 356 Air Magnetic Prototype

Thanks!

 

[Sion]

DAMN! GJ FELIKS! Imo, this was long overdue, although so was a Mats Wr too. Wait one more year and either one of them will break the sub 4 barrier in comp.

 

[moralsh]

Huge congrats Feliks!, well deserved, of course

inb4 another 4 next comp, once broken the barrier it's no longer there

 

[Robert-Y]

This brings up an interesting point: what the longest time for a person to reclaim a lost world record?

I don't have the answer to this, but I think this is the longest time taken for someone to break a certain WR again (~5.5 years). I just quickly scanned through the WR history on WCA to do this

 

[efattah]

This means the two most recent WR singles were made on magnetic cubes.
Not sure how much of a correlation that is, but it'll certainly add to their popularity.

Mats was using a Valk3-M ??

As mentioned earlier in the thread, I was actually more impressed that Mats beat Felix in the overall competition. The record is great too of course (congrats Felix)! Although WCA will need to start implementing new rules about the minimum amount you need to break the record by in order for it to count as a new record. The stackmat timer itself has a certain error margin in its timing. In fact it is not entirely clear to me that this new record beat the old record by more than the intrinsic error of the timer itself. Like in the 100m dash in track and field, less than a certain margin is considered a tie.

 

[stoic]

The stackmat timer itself has a certain error margin in its timing. In fact it is not entirely clear to me that this new record beat the old record by more than the intrinsic error of the timer itself. Like in the 100m dash in track and field, less than a certain margin is considered a tie.

Is there any data on this anywhere?

 

[Meep]

Mats was using a Valk3-M ??

As mentioned earlier in the thread, I was actually more impressed that Mats beat Felix in the overall competition. The record is great too of course (congrats Felix)! Although WCA will need to start implementing new rules about the minimum amount you need to break the record by in order for it to count as a new record. The stackmat timer itself has a certain error margin in its timing. In fact it is not entirely clear to me that this new record beat the old record by more than the intrinsic error of the timer itself. Like in the 100m dash in track and field, less than a certain margin is considered a tie.

Well, you can think of truncating the thousandths digit as an implementation of this already. For example, 4.739 and 4.730 is a tie.