ImmolatedMarmoset
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Yeah. Cuboid are dope. 3x3x5 should be added.
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ImmolatedMarmoset
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But before adding a new class of cubes, I’d rather open up the space of dodecahedron puzzles by adding kilominx. It honestly has been progressed very little and I think it has a lot of room for improvement. And it would give people who like minxes more choice.
Loser
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>lot of room for improvement
>people avg 12
any event should be >1-2 minutes uwr imo
ImmolatedMarmoset
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Where did you get that info? There are very, very, few people who average sub-20 on kilominx. Like maybe 5 or so. No one averages 12. For goodness’ sake, the UWR average of 5 is 13.98! While I can understand that you would want the UWR of any event to be 1-2 mins, that’s simply impossible because to gain enough popularity to be added, it needs to be used and developed to the point where there is enough awareness of the event and its popularity. The WCA can’t just randomly throw Bagua cube or something stupid like that which has barely been explored, because there will be backlash from the community, guaranteed. And kilominx does have a lot of room for improvement. It’s like skewb. Before it was made official, the best skewbers averaged maybe 6-7 secs. And now people are getting sub-3 averages. The same could go for kilominx.I could definitely see people getting sub 10 eventually. But that would take time. And so now is the perfect time to jump into it, when people have barely scratched the surface of what could be achieved.
(As a side note, it’d be kind of interesting to see if people would take to calling it “kilo” like we call megaminx “mega” now.
anyway, that’s my manifesto. Feel free to flame on me.
Loser
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lol ig i remember single being 12 whoops
but world class megaers would be sub 10 on kilominx within 3 months lol
but world class megaers would be sub 10 on kilominx within 3 months lol
ImmolatedMarmoset
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/you know, I kind of disagree. I think it would take a while to get there. People would actually have to develop new ll methods, and that would take time. Not to mention that I think world class megaers wouldn’t necessarily transfer over to kilo for the same reason all 3x3 solvers aren’t necessarily amazing at 2x2. I think it would just be interesting to see the meta of kilominx evolve. That’s why I want to see it added.
Loser
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3x3 v 2x2 is slightly different, as there is a very different solving process within the 2.
I would be interested to see if new solving methods would emerge, as going 1 layer at a time seems inefficient. Hardware also is bad rn and I would love to see that improve.
I would be interested to see if new solving methods would emerge, as going 1 layer at a time seems inefficient. Hardware also is bad rn and I would love to see that improve.
ImmolatedMarmoset
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Exactly. Now do you see why I want it to be added?
Loser
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eh, i still dont really see the popularity being there, and seeing what would happen if an event is added isnt a good reason to add an event
ImmolatedMarmoset
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Agreed. But there are people still speed solving it, notably Jacob Ambrose, Theo Paris, and Clement Cherblanc. And it’s not like skewb had too many more supporters other than Sarah and Ranzha. anyway. We’ll see where it goes.
Loser
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i dont think any of those ppl still practice kilo
ImmolatedMarmoset
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You really think that? Look at speed solving comps. Jacob Ambrose is still getting sub 20 averages. There’s still motivation.
ImmolatedMarmoset
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And Theo Paris uploaded to YT an 11 sec kilo solve in November 2018.
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