World Record predictions in the year 2020?

I want to express my firm opinion that the ZB method will transform cubing.
In 2020 many people will have switched to ZB, and start to have consistent sub 9 averages.

But then again, some people thought this back in 2003, as evidenced in the yahoo speedsolving group, but enthusiasm quickly died down.

So, there's a good chance I'm completely wrong.

Remember when Chris said this back in 2010
 
2x2 - 0.3/1.1
3x3 - 3.1(Kian Mansour) / 4.90 (Kian Mansour)
4x4 - 16.00 sec(Max Park) / 19.80 sec (Max Park)
5x5 - 32 (Feliks Zemdegs) / 35 (Feliks Zemdegs)
6x6 - 1:10 (Feliks Zemdegs) / 1:15 (Feliks Zemdegs)
7x7 - 1:50 (Feliks Zemdegs) / 1:55 (Feliks Zemdegs)
3x3 BLD - 13.50 (Gianfranco Huanqui) / 18.90(Shivam Bansal)
4x4 BLD - 1:20 (Gianfranco Huanqui/Me/ Kaijun Lin/Roman )
5x5 BLD - 2:50 (Me/Kaijun lin/Roman)
3x3 OH - 5.5 (Kian Mansour) / 8.5 (Kavin Gu_Roux)

3x3 multi BLD - 75/85 (Shivam Bansal)
 
2x2 - 0.3/1.1
3x3 - 3.1(Kian Mansour) / 4.90 (Kian Mansour)
4x4 - 16.00 sec(Max Park) / 19.80 sec (Max Park)
5x5 - 32 (Feliks Zemdegs) / 35 (Feliks Zemdegs)
6x6 - 1:10 (Feliks Zemdegs) / 1:15 (Feliks Zemdegs)
7x7 - 1:50 (Feliks Zemdegs) / 1:55 (Feliks Zemdegs)
3x3 BLD - 13.50 (Gianfranco Huanqui) / 18.90(Shivam Bansal)
4x4 BLD - 1:20 (Gianfranco Huanqui/Me/ Kaijun Lin/Roman )
5x5 BLD - 2:50 (Me/Kaijun lin/Roman)
3x3 OH - 5.5 (Kian Mansour) / 8.5 (Kavin Gu_Roux)

3x3 multi BLD - 75/85 (Shivam Bansal)
Interesting, but none of these will ever happen except for 4BLD
 
2x2 is possible, 4x4 single is do-able but would be really hard.
The others I do think are unrealistic, at least for 2020. They could be beaten in the far future at least.
Nah 4x4 is also very unrealistic, there currently hasn't even been a sub-19 single. Also 2x2 single sub-0.35 is nearly humanly impossible.
 
2x2: 0.31, 1.03
3x3: 3.29, 4.85
4x4: 14.02, 17.35
5x5: 31.09, 39.29
6x6: 1:08.91, 1:12.39
7x7: 1:48.68, 1:52.05
OH: 5.25, 8.29
Feet: 16.86, 21.78
FMC: 17, 20.33
3BLD: 14.76, 17.05
4BLD: 1:05.39
5BLD: 2:46.70
MBLD: 49/51 57:36
Megaminx: 22.36, 28.76
Pyraminx: 0.88, 1.53
Square-1: 4.68, 6.05
Skewb: 0.70, 1.39
Clock: 3.26, 4.07
 
2x2: 0.49 / 1.45
3x3: 4.48 / 6.04
4x4: 19.22 / 23.80
5x5: 39.88 / 47.69
6x6: 1:24.30 / 1:31.33
7x7: 2:07.43 / 2:15.49
3BLD: 17.93 / 19.89
FMC: 18 / 23.67
OH: 6.59 / 10.43
Feet: 20.57 / 27.95
Mega: 27.70 / 33.34
Pyra: 1.28 / 2.09
Clock: 3.69 / 5.05
Skewb: 1.00 / 2.58
Squan: 5.88 / 8.15
4BLD: 1:33.09
5BLD: 3:47.50
MBLD: 43/44 in 59:04

Slightly unoptimistic in some cases, but meh.
 
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